As fans, we sometimes focus on things in comic book movies that don't ultimately end up meaning too much. Whether it's those devil references in WandaVision or Mac Gargan's introduction in Spider-Man: Homecoming, subplots that often appear important in the MCU often go nowhere...until they're occasionally revisited years later!
In 2018's Ant-Man and The Wasp, we met Sonny Burch, a black-market tech dealer who was intent on getting his hands on the Quantum Tunnel created by Hank Pym.
He was doing so on behalf of a mysterious "Benefactor," with fan theories ranging from Norman Osborn to The Leader and even M.O.D.O.K. Unfortunately, new comments from Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania director Peyton Reed suggest that the subplot won't be picked up on in the threequel.
"For that particular question, you may have to wait a little bit longer," he says in the video below. "I love Sonny Burch, I love Walton Goggins, who I cast in the movie."
"But yes, he was definitely sort of working in service of someone. I don’t know that we’ll answer that in this movie, because we have a lot of story to tell in the Quantum Realm in this movie," Reed continues. "I love that fans have theories about that."
It would be a terrible shame for an actor as talented as Goggins to be sidelined, while not making "The Benefactor" a bigger name from the comics feels like a missed opportunity. Hopefully, this is something the filmmaker is able to circle back to in a possible Ant-Man 4!
In Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Super-Hero partners Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Together, with Hope’s parents Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), the family finds themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is set to be released in theaters on February 17, 2023.