The parents of a child actor recently shared some behind-the-scenes photos from Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania revealing that their son had once played Hope Van Dyne's child in the threequel. Needless to say, that left us all scratching our heads, especially as there was nowhere in the movie that could have really worked.
We theorised it might have something to do with the Quantum Realm's probability storm, though, and writer Jeff Loveness confirmed that during a recent interview with IGN.
"It's my fault. I think it just didn't fit in the flow of what we were doing," he explains. "There was more of that probability storm scene where Scott had all the multiplications and the Schrodinger's cat thing. There was more of a psychological element to it too, in earlier scripts, which was really cool."
"I think it just seemed a little disjointed," Loveness continues. "There was more story of where Kang was going to explain what you're walking into and what you're seeing. But it's on me. I feel bad for the kid. Sorry. I hope his agent wasn't screaming at him that he really [frick]ed his career. It was me. It's my shoddy writing."
Last month, set photos revealed that Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania reshoots were taking place, and comparisons to earlier plot leaks indicate they were changing the movie's ending.
Asked if Scott Lang and Hope originally found themselves trapped in the Quantum Realm, Loveness confirmed "we talked about it" and explained why they chose to move away from that.
"At the end of the day on paper, it's Scott Lang stuck in the Quantum Realm again. And it's like, 'Well, that's literally what happens at the end of the last one.' And I think people are going to be a little tired of people getting stuck in the Quantum Realm and he's gone from Cassie again. And it just felt a little too repetitive to me."
"It actually felt more revolutionary to have Scott win," the writer adds. "But that victory comes with a cost of this guy who starts out so carefree and thinks his hero life is over....he's not the same guy anymore. And that carefree attitude is gone. And now he's keeping secrets from his family."
"And now I think the fun potential – I don't want to spoil anything – but it's like, 'Oh, the guy who literally saved the universe in the last phase in Endgame is now potentially the guy who f***ed the multiverse going forward,'" the writer concludes. "He's in a place of uncertainty, and he is trying to eat his feelings and bury it."
It definitely feels like Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania will be a movie that benefits from repeat viewings, particularly after we see the rest of the Multiverse Saga unfold.
That's still a ways off, of course, but Loveness remains hard at work on Avengers: The Kang Dynasty ahead of its planned release on May 2, 2025.