A variant of Kang \u2013 named He Who Remains \u2013 previously made a vital appearance in the Loki<\/a> season 1 finale, and now Jonathan Majors is back to play a particularly fearsome version of the character who finds himself trapped in the Quantum Realm.<\/p>\n Kang will be playing a huge role in the future of the franchise leading up to upcoming Avengers films The Kang Dynasty<\/a> and Secret Wars<\/a> (set for release in 2025 and 2026 respectively), and Quantumania director Peyton Reed has teased that the character \u201cchanges everything\u201d in the MCU.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was sort of determined midway through [production] that we were going to be the beginning of Phase Five,\u201d he explained during an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>. \u201cAnd I always ask [Kevin] Feige, like, what does the phase actually mean?<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think for us, it really meant\u2026 it was Kang, right? The thing that sets him apart as an antagonist is there is Kang the Conqueror, who is featured in Quantumania. But he\u2019s a Nexus Being \u2013 there are variants of Kang.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd what happens if you introduce a villain who\u2019s fighting our heroes, but he is separately at war with all the different versions of himself? And what does that mean for the ongoing Marvel Universe?<\/p>\n \u201cWell, it changes everything that\u2019s happening,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd at the same time, the Avengers, you know, in Doctor Strange and Spider-Man and certainly in Loki, they\u2019re becoming aware of the existence of the multiverse.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd there might be these sort of incursions into the multiverse, and what does that mean for the Kangs? So it\u2019s setting up a lot of that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Reed added that despite these grander aspects of the plot, he wanted to ensure that the film was still in line with the previous two entries in the Ant-Man trilogy \u2013 and that plenty of time was given to the storylines concerning Scott Lang, Hope van Dyne and other returning characters in the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania cast<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cReally, it\u2019s still telling the story of this family,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd sort of telling this full story, but the Kang story \u2013 it\u2019s a little bit of a prelude to that whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Michael Douglas, who is reprising his role as Hank Pym from the previous two Ant-Man films, is also keen to see what\u2019s in store for Kang in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is going to be a crucial part of the Marvel Universe coming up,\u201d he said. \u201cHis ability to go back to the past and to the future, all the times.\u201d<\/p>\n And although he didn\u2019t share too many scenes with Majors in the film, Douglas \u201cwished him well\u201d for the huge role he was going on to play.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of my knowledge was through Paul [Rudd], who was limping home every night after some of those fights sequences,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve met him a couple of times, [he\u2019s] a lovely, lovely actor.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he\u2019s gonna be up to his ears in the Marvel world for some time to come. I didn\u2019t realise it, when they say Phase Five, this is really following the arc of the Marvel Comics, and this is what happened to them in that basically \u2013 Kang became the villain that was dealt with in all of the different episodes.\u201d<\/p> ![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/DBY-02191R-7bf879e.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
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