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Michael Douglas Asked Marvel to Kill Him Off in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ and Pitched a ‘Fantastic’ Death: ‘I Can Shrink to an Ant Size and Explode’

Michael Douglas wanted out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and asked Marvel to kill off Hank Pym in "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."

Appearing on “The View” (via Entertainment Weekly) to promote his new Apple TV+ historical drama series “Franklin,” Douglas revealed that he actually wanted to be killed off from the MCU in the third “Ant-Man” movie. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was one of two big box office disasters for Marvel in 2023 along with “The Marvels.” The film was intended to kick off the fifth phase of the MCU with a bang by introducing the Thanos-like villain Kang the Conquerer (played by Jonathan Majors, who has since been dropped by Marvel after he was convicted of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault), but critics largely panned “Quantumania” and attendance fell off after the film’s opening weekend. After the release of “Quantumania,” Ant-Man actor Paul Rudd told Insider he had “no idea” what his future in the MCU looked like, adding: “None of this is my call, so I try not to think about it too much.

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