Will Ant-Man 3 Drop An MCU Bombshell

The MCU rumor mill has indeed been working overtime, most recently churning out the unconfirmed report that a new film featuring a certain Quantum Realm explorer and his crew may be in the works. We're referring, of course, to the pint-sized Avenger Scott Lang, AKA Ant-Man. Now, a new rumor has surfaced one which suggests that the flick, if it happens, might herald the debut of the MCU's Young Avengers.

All jokes aside, most Marvel fans are already well aware that Ant-Man's MCU status has been a bit up in the air not because Lang and his paramour-slash-partner the Wasp didn't make it through the showdown with Thanos featured in Avengers: Endgame, but because a new Ant-Man film was conspicuously left out of Marvel's mammoth Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019.

With Ant-Man's absence on the Phase 4 timeline, many fans were left wondering what would become of the quippiest of Avengers. To date, Marvel has yet to confirm the fate of the Ant-Man franchise, spawning rumors that the studio may either be planning to take the Ant-Man and the Wasp team to the small-screen via the Disney+ streaming platform, or that it might not be planning to move forward with a new Ant-Man tale at all, and that Scott Lang's quantum realm-jumping days in the MCU may actually be over.

Those fears appeared to be put to rest when self-proclaimed Marvel Studios insider Charles Murphy claimed that Ant-Man 3 is now in the works, and that the film may be slotting into Phase 5 of the MCU with a July 29, 2022 release date. Part of the reported scoop involves the discovery of a new company being formed in California in September 2019, with a seemingly telling name: Pym Particles Production III LLC.

Furthermore, Murphy reported that Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly would be reprising their roles as the insect-themed, crime-fighting duo, with Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer presumably returning as Dr. Hank Pym and O.G. Wasp Janet Van Dyne.

Now would be a good time to reiterate that Marvel has not yet confirmed that Ant-Man 3 is a go for the MCU's Phase 5 or beyond or that the film is even a possibility so take this rumor with a big ol' grain of salt. Mr. Murphy has produced accurate info on occasion, but he hasn't been right about everything and you know what they say about broken clocks.

Murphy went on to offer another whopper regarding the possible narrative arc of Ant-Man 3, involving Scott Lang's now teen-aged daughter Cassie. The latest bit of MCU conjecture involves Cassie Lang following in the footsteps of her incredible shrinking daddy, and donning her own shrinking suit to fight crime an arc that would then open the door for Marvel's Young Avengers to make their first appearance in the MCU. Keep watching the video to see will Ant-Man 3 drop an MCU bombshell?

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