We chat with AntManandtheWaspQuantumania writer JeffLoveness about collaborating with Peyton Reed, crafting Kang the Conqueror, and what to expect from AvengersTheKangDynasty:
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania follows Scott Lang as he takes time to make up for the years he lost with his daughter after saving the universe. However, he and his family are pulled into a new adventure when Cassie's experiment sends them into the Quantum Realm. While there, secrets kept by Janet Van Dyne come to light, including a dangerous new threat, Kang the Conqueror.
Jeff Loveness: He's terrific. He's got not only just a sense of story, but he knows these characters, he knows these actors very well. The guy is just such a journeyman director. I mean, he's made so many genres of movies, everything from Down with Love to Bring It On to The Breakup. He just knows how to make a movie and it's cool.
And then being in the Quantum Realm, it's not the ocean, it's not outer space. You can get very weird and very biological, and have weird, strange creatures, and a guy who loves holes. And in this canvas, you can only do M.O.D.O.K. in an Ant-Man movie like this you can only [have] a big swing character like that in this type of movie, because the color palette's a bit more psychedelic, and it's a bit more removed. You don't have to worry about Iron Man showing up or whatever.
And so to me, the way to beat Thanos is that he's fantastic, but he is a motion-captured purple CGI space alien. So the opposite of that is, "Hey, let's get a human being. Let's get a man with an expressive face and just put a close up on him." And that is how you beat Thanos. You want to really get to know this guy. And I thought it would be interesting because Kang is going to be such an omnipotent villain.
Jeff Loveness: I'm thrilled. I got another swing to the bat. I did not intend [it], and that was not part of the plan with Quantumania. I had just written that and, hopefully, they liked my take on Kang, and they liked my vision for where I thought it should go. But I thought I was one and done; I thought I was coming in to do a fun Ant-Man movie, and I'd be moving on.
You don't want to have a Thanksgiving dinner scene with the Kangs, or Multiplicity or something. It's a balance of, "How do you make each character different? Why are they different? What is their outlook?" Obviously, Michael Waldron did a terrific job of setting that up in Loki with He Who Remains. I kind of took that from him and did this version of Kang. And I'm doing that to myself now, "Okay, you've had the goofy one who's been alone too long.
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