Kang Will Have A Profound Impact On The MCU According To A New Interview With ‘Quantumania’ Director Peyton Reed

Marvel

Nov 22

The march toward the next Avengers film takes a big step with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. In Empire’s January 2023 issue, their epic 2023 preview that features Indiana Jones, Quantumania’s director Peyton Reed talks about Kang’s arrival and how the reverberations will ripple with a “profound impact” on the way to that destination. It makes the film a big tonal shift compared to the lighter Ant-Man and The Wasp, which came just after Avengers Infinity War and its defeated ending.

To the point, Kang (played by Jonathan Majors) will make clear how different he is from his variant He Who Remains. That was the eccentric personality that appeared at the end of the first season of Loki, and whose death at the hands of Sylvie was prefaced with the warning that all sorts of variants would wreak havoc across the multiverse. And of course, Jeff Loveness wrote Quantumania and is writing that fifth Avengers film, so he’s writing the first steps and the destination with a central antagonist character. Such reverberations are already there for the audience to seek the details. Reed calls Kang a “warrior and a strategist”, and plays up his being a higher-level threat than Sonny Burch, Yellowjacket, or Ghost. What interested the director was taking the “tiniest, and in some people’s minds weakest, Avenger, and [putting] them up against this absolute force of nature.”

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania also stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lily, Kathryn Newton, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Randall Park, and will be released on February 17, 2023. It kicks off the fifth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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