The Marvel Cinematic Universe's next big bad is about to make his big screen debut in "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."
Directed by Peyton Reed, "Quantumania" formally introduces Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror, the supervillain expected to play a big role in the next series of Marvel Studios' film and TV projects as they march toward "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty," announced for 2025.
The first to face this new big bad of the MCU's Phases 5 and 6 will be the multigenerational Lang-Van Dyne-Pym clan, who can also collectively be called Ant-Mans and the Wasps. The current Ant-Man, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), is basking in the aftermath of saving the world with the Avengers, while his partner, Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), and daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) are busy trying to make the world a better place. But they, along with Hope's parents Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), eventually find themselves back in the quantum realm and pitted against Kang.
