ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Director Reveals How Those Mid-Credits Scene Deaths Were Chosen

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Director Reveals How Those Mid-Credits Scene Deaths Were Chosen

Ant-Man and The Wasp's mid-credits scene might just have been Marvel's most shocking effort to date and now director Peyton Reed has weighed in on how they chose which characters should get dusted...

By JoshWilding - Aug 17, 2018 02:08 AM EST
Source: Huffington Post
Ant-Man and The Wasp makes plenty of references to Captain America: Civil War but the movie doesn't catch up to the events of Avengers: Infinity War until a mid-credits scene which leaves Scott Lang trapped in the Quantum Realm and Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne, and Hope Van Dyne all turned into dust after Thanos snapped his fingers in Wakanda and wiped out half of the universe's population.

Of the four characters who appeared in this sequence, 75% of them were dusted and when director Peyton Reed was asked how the decision was made when it came to who was going to die, it sounds like trapping Scott inside the Quantum Realm and leaving him all alone was a very deliberate decision.


"A big part of it was deciding who was going to be in that scene to begin with, because there was a version of that scene I think where it’s like, “OK, maybe Bill Foster is here as well, maybe Ava Starr is here as well.” We talked about versions with ― and maybe Luis, or whoever, it could’ve been anybody ― but then there’s a certain percentage issue that’s set up obviously in “Infinity War” that we couldn’t ignore. When we finally landed on the version that you saw, the final version in the movie, it just seemed right."

The fates of the other characters mentioned by Reed are currently a mystery and it's unlikely any of their fates will be addressed in Avengers 4, especially as there will be so much else going on! What do you guys think of how the scene played out at the end of Ant-Man and The Wasp? Sound off below. 
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manofillintent1
manofillintent1 - 8/17/2018, 3:04 AM
Finally saw this yesterday was that second post credit scene really necessary? I was thinking as I was waiting do movies actually need to have credits at all?
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 8/17/2018, 3:40 AM
Sorry to say, but it's a good thing Ant-ony was already dead or he surely would have disappeared.
MrDandy
MrDandy - 8/17/2018, 7:42 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - Antony WILL return.

Kyos
Kyos - 8/17/2018, 4:05 AM
I really enjoyed Ant-Man and the Wasp. Never got to commenting on that due to the Gunn madness. So yeah, I liked the movie a lot.
Kurne
Kurne - 8/17/2018, 4:41 AM
I think showing Hank, Janet and Hope was the best choice because it sets up Scott's stakes to be as emotionally high as the rest of the Avengers in A4. All in one scene.

Although that being said, I wish Hope survived.
LaserKing
LaserKing - 8/17/2018, 4:50 AM
I like the way they did the scene with the people they had. I like Luis but I do not think he would have fit in the serious tone they had.
JonC
JonC - 8/17/2018, 9:32 AM
@LaserKing - Luis will come looking for his van, and probably save Scott's life by reversing the doo-hickey.
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