Speaking to THR, Reed shared that the reason Luis wasn't in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was simply because the team knew they were going to go into the Quantum Realm early and feature a lot of new characters there. "There were no versions of this movie [with Luis]," Reed said.
Despite knowing full well the appeal of Luis, Reed tells THR there is no version of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania that features the character. The filmmaker justifies the decision by saying the threequel is already packed with characters and they decided early on not to get Luis in the mix.
With the poor reviews, unserious tone, and superhero fatigue present in Hollywood of late, fans could have decided to wait until the film is released digitally rather than flock to the theater. This would have largely impacted the film's box office run.
"In the end, with its clumsy collision of influences, star power, CGI that is often rubbery or outright ugly, and a convoluted plot that should have an Excedrin tie-in, 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' is like a child's mixed media project, made of paper mache, glitter, and hunks of rotting ground meat," she said.
Marvel Studios recast Cassie Lang for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, choosing Kathryn Newton for a bigger and more recognizable star in the role. The decision to recast Cassie Lang was not unusual, as Marvel has recast other characters in the past, such as Bruce Banner and James Rhodey.
Director Peyton Reed explained that the reason for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's Cassie recast was due to him wanting "someone in that role who could really hang with Paul Rudd and sort of not be left in the dust." While the director never specifically mentioned Fuhrmann when justifying the recast, he did sing ...
Not beating around to bush, Reed said that he chose to replace Cassie because he admired Newton as an actor, and wanted someone who could keep up with Paul Rudd.
Many feel the whole package is simply lackluster, with most of it looking rubbery and cheap—anything but convincing. It doesn't help that one key character is an odd-looking floating head. Even its lead villain, who has a practical suit, is victim to subpar VFX work in every action scene he dominates.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, it's sad to say, is not good. It is not good in many, many ways. The weirdly blank performances, the thunderingly dull fights, the nothingy plot: it is not good.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is independent of Loki, despite the series introducing Jonathan Majors to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Meanwhile, the film introduces He Who Remains' variant, Kang the Conqueror, a multiversal threat whose arrival was foreshadowed in Loki.
And perhaps the most egregious fault is that Quantumania itself felt like a mishmash of previous Marvel movies — from the way the Quantum Realm was depicted as an alien world (Guardians of the Galaxy) to featuring a kid genius caught up in a problem much bigger than they bargained for (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever or ...
One of the most common complaints about Ant-Man 3 is the film's use of visual effects. Audiences and fans complained about the characters, set pieces, and locations looking very rubbery and fake. Also not helping was the poorly implemented design of one of the film's villains, MODOK.
Despite knowing full well the appeal of Luis, Reed tells THR there is no version of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania that features the character. The filmmaker justifies the decision by saying the threequel is already packed with characters and they decided early on not to get Luis in the mix.
In Quantumania, Ant-Man and Co. ultimately defeat Kang, but the film's two end-credits scenes reveal that his reign is far from over. The film also ends with an ominous stinger, reading: "Kang will return." Here, we break down Quantumania's two post-credits scenes and their implications for the wider MCU.
Commercially, Quantumania was just as disappointing. While the latest Ant-Man title earned $476 million at the global box office, the film became the first non-pandemic MCU movie to lose money, falling well short of the $600 million it needed to break even.
It is possible that Marvel altered Quantumania's ending to set up future MCU projects. In fact, not long before the reshoots began, a reliable plot leak offered a very different ending than the one that audiences eventually saw in theaters.
A report exploring the behind-the-scenes drama behind Victoria Alonso's untimely exit from Marvel Studios has revealed that Disney chose to remove gay imagery from Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania ahead of its theatrical debut to avoid a ban.
Whilst Quantumania made a $38 million loss on its box office revenue, Marvel's team-up movies Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame made $1.2 billion of profits as we revealed.
The first act is about 12 minutes long, and it's 12 minutes of these foolish woke sensibilities. However, the rest of the movie is fairly woke-free, and even paints Scott as a heroic and selfless dad who would sacrifice himself for his child without a second thought.
There are touches added in—like Cassie calling Hank "Grandpa"—that help to illustrate how close this family has grown in the time since we last met them.
Scott's arrest came at an already rough spot in their marriage, leading Lang to file for divorce. Sometime after, she began dating Jim Paxton and they soon became engaged.
