ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA Director Shares Details on Post-Credits Sequences
Marvel’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quanumania definitely isn’t the most well-received Marvel movie from fans, but it did set up the next big bad villain, Kang (Jonathan Majors), in a huge way! Before we go on, this post will discuss the end of the film and there are spoilers. So, if you haven’t seen the movie yet, stop reading!
While Ant-Man and The Wasp defeat Kang The Conqueror at the end of the film, that’s not the end of Kang. There are a lot more Kang variants throughout the multiverse, and in one of the two post-credits scenes, we see them gathering together and it gets pretty wild! This is all a big setup for what’s coming in the Phase 6 film, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
Director Peyton Reed recently opened up about this post-credits scene, which brought the pages of Avengers #267 to life, which features the Council of Kangs and the villainous variants filling a colosseum. He told CB:
"I directed the first one which is the Council of Kangs scene. We did this, in terms of, there's a very famous comics panel where you see the Council of Kangs and all these variants in there," Reed went on. "We definitely wanted to recreate that and give Jonathan [Majors] a starting point to deal with, 'Who do we bring in of the variants?' There's Rama Tut and there's a character based on Scarlet Centurion and, of course, Immortus. We wanted to go full Kurasawa Ran with it and make it really operatic."
Rama Tut was previously referenced in Marvel’s Moon Knight series. So, it was fun to see the Egyptian-ruler variant of Kang make his debut. Immortus is labeled as the Kang of all Kangs as he is calling the shots for these variants and should be expected to play a key role in the story of The Kang Dynasty. Reed added:
"There are some different Kangs and part of it was coming up with different, quick versions. It was sitting down with Jonathan and with Stephen Broussard and talking about like, 'This one could be perceived as this Kang and this Kang.' But what we really wanted to show was just the totality of it, how many variants there might be, when we get that that final panel. Trying to recreate that famous panel in the Council of Kangs right down to weird alien looking Kang in the top right corner, was really fun to do. With Jonathan, of course, that's his sweet spot, playing all these different versions of Kang."
You can check out that comic panel below:
As for the second credits scene, the one that connects to the Loki series, Reed did not direct that one. That was helmed by Moon Knight directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, who are developing Loki Season 2.
What did you think of the two post-credits scenes in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania? Did it get you excited about the future of Marvel?