Ant-Man 4 Could Still Happen, Kathryn Newton Says, If Fans Want It Enough

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania prima Kathryn Newton has said there's inactive anticipation for a 4th movie successful the franchise, if fans genuinely privation it to happen.

Speaking to The Direct, Newton suggested that the powerfulness of Marvel's fandom could inactive get different sequel greenlit, contempt a feeling among galore viewers that Quantumania was a disappointment, and that the Ant-Man franchise had tally its course.

Quantumania launched backmost successful 2023, and failed to execute critically oregon commercially. Memorably, the movie ditched the series' antecedently enjoyable low-key capers for a CGI-heavy blockbuster communicative meant to service arsenic setup for Kang, the MCU's adjacent Big Bad. (A concern unluckily not helped further by Jonathan Majors' consequent firing.)

Perhaps much crucially for Marvel and Disney, Quantumania was 1 of its astir costly films ever — and an tremendous stake that did not wage off. With a fund of much than $330 million, the movie struggled astatine the container office, and became 1 of the fewer MCU releases to not marque its fund back.

Despite this, Newton — who plays Ant-Man's girl Cassie Lang — has refused to regularisation retired a 4th introduction successful the bid happening eventually, adjacent if it takes decades to arrive.

"I deliberation that's not up to me, and it's up to the fans astatine the extremity of the day," Newton said. "I've ever talked astir the powerfulness of a fandom, and if you privation something, it volition happen, nary substance what... If you emotion it, it's gonna travel backmost around.

"We spot it each the clip with things being rebooted and sequels aft 20 years," she continued. "If fans privation something, we listen. And that's however I felt astir everything I've done."

Perhaps successful 20 years determination volition beryllium different Ant-Man film? I accidental that is not intolerable to regularisation out. Until then, some Newton and Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd, volition beryllium backmost successful Avengers: Doomsday. The second looks to person been called up again arsenic portion of the main Avengers team, portion Cassie has been spotted successful a caller trailer bidding him farewell.

Here's hoping Ant-Man makes it done Doomsday and Secret Wars successful 1 portion to marque a 4th movie someday. Exactly what specified a movie mightiness absorption on, however, is unclear. The concern is not helped by the information that Hank Pym histrion Michael Douglas has mostly retired from acting, portion Hope van Dyne histrion Evangeline Lilly has said she's taking an "indefinite hiatus" from acting to absorption connected her family.

Cassie, meanwhile, is expected to yet articulation the Young Avengers squad being created by Ms. Marvel and Kate Bishop — if Marvel ever gets astir to returning to those characters.

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