Ant-Man Star Michael Douglas Says He's 'Had the Experience' of Marvel, Now Unlikely to Return as Hank Pym

Ant-Man prima and seasoned histrion Michael Douglas has said he's astir apt done with the MCU, aft making 4 big-screen appearances arsenic shrinking idiosyncratic Hank Pym.

Douglas has appeared successful each 3 Ant-Man movies released to date, culminating successful 2023's poorly-received Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, aft besides appearing successful Avengers: Endgame.

But arsenic Avengers: Doomsday begins shooting, volition Marvel fans spot Hank Pym 1 past time? According to Douglas, it's unlikely.

"I don't deliberation so," Douglas told Deadline, erstwhile asked if helium would instrumentality for different Marvel project. "I had the experience, and I was excited to bash it."

Douglas has mostly retired from acting, with Marvel projects being his lone big-screen appearances successful caller years. At the aforesaid time, Douglas has continued enactment arsenic a producer, for which helium holds much than a twelve credits.

"I'd ne'er done a greenish surface representation before," Douglas continued, of his enactment connected Marvel films. "But I'm enjoying my hiatus and enjoying my life. It was overwhelming moving the accumulation institution and acting astatine the aforesaid time."

Douglas has antecedently spoken of his tendency for Hank Pym to beryllium killed disconnected successful Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, rounding retired the character's arc portion providing higher stakes for Paul Rudd's incarnation of Ant-Man. Marvel bosses, however, decided otherwise.

Quantumania's container bureau show has near the aboriginal of the Ant-Man bid looking little than assured, but Rudd himself has already been confirmed to instrumentality successful Avengers: Doomsday.

As for the remainder of the Ant-Man household — Pym, Michelle Pfieffer's Janet Van Dyne, and Evangeline Lilly's Hope Van Dyne — possibly don't clasp your breath. In June 2024, Lilly announced she would beryllium stepping distant from acting to absorption connected her family, making an Avengers: Doomsday quality by her quality Wasp improbable too.

So, what volition beryllium successful Avengers: Doomsday? Well, earlier this week the net got a glimpse astatine footage that appeared to person leaked from the acceptable of the film, showing a instrumentality of a astonishing determination from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

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