Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Director Says There’s ‘No Version’ That Features Luis

There were many fans who missed Michael Peña’s Luis and his legendary recaps in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but director Peyton Reed said that no versions of the latest MCU film had him in it.

Speaking to THR, Reed shared that the reason Luis wasn’t in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was simply because the team knew they were going to go into the Quantum Realm early and feature a lot of new characters there.

“There were no versions of this movie [with Luis],” Reed said. “There are a lot of characters in the movie. We obviously have our Lang, van Dyne and Pym family, but then we also introduced Kang, MODOK and all of our Freedom Fighter characters. So we had to make decisions early on about what stories we could tell and what stories we couldn’t tell.

“I love those characters. They were really, really fun and part of the Lang family, but as we got further and further into [development] and knew we wanted to bring the family into the Quantum Realm pretty early in the movie, it just didn’t make sense [to include Luis and co.].”

This reasoning appears to extend to David Dastmalchian’s Kurt, T.I.’s Dave, Judy Greer’s Maggie, and Bobby Cannavale’s Paxton as well, even though they appeared in the previous two Ant-Man films. Well, Dastmalchian did actually return for Quantumania, but as freedom fighter Veb.

In our Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review, we said it “has just enough entertaining moments and a heartfelt family story, plus knockout performances in Michelle Pfeiffer’s Janet van Dyne and Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror, to make up for its more underdeveloped aspects.”

For more, check out our biggest WTF questions walking out of the theater, our explainer of the ending and post-credits scenes, and how Kang forces Ant-Man to grow up.

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