David Dastmalchian Confirms He Won’t Return In ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’

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Many actors are known for starring in both Marvel and DC movies, but David Dastmalchian is a name for himself considering he starred in several different Marvel and DC projects. We’ve seen him first in Christoper Nolan’s The Dark Knight in a minor role as Thomas Schiff, a former patient at Arkham and one of Joker’s thugs. Dastmalchian also starred in DC shows Gotham as Dwight Pollard, The Flash series as Abra Kadabra, and The Suicide Squad movie as Polka Dot-Man. He also voiced Calendar Man in an animated movie Batman: The Long Halloween.

But, these were all DC projects, and we said he also worked at Marvel too. Ant-Man fans will remember him as Kurt Goreshter, a cybercriminal and a friend of Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Luis, and Dave. He worked as the team’s hacker during their heists, and after leaving the criminal past behind, they all opened the foundation of the X-Con Security Consultants. Dastmalchian played the role in the first Ant-Man movie in 2015 and the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp three years later.

Dastmalchian recently attended the launch event of the Marvel series Moon Knight, which will premiere on Disney+ in five days. While speaking with ScreenRant, he confirmed that his character will not return in a third Ant-Man movie — Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is set to be released in July 2023. Dastmalchian praised director Peyton Reed who worked on the entire Ant-Man trilogy, and he said he believes that the upcoming sequel will be incredible.

“It doesn’t look like it… But that’s okay. I know they’re making something incredible. I can’t wait to see what Peyton does next. He’s one of my favorite directors…He’s been so busy. I have tried to stay in touch, but he’s making an incredible film right now.” — David Dastmalchian for ScreenRant

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Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, and Michelle Pfeiffer are returning to reprise their respective MCU roles. Newcomer Kathryn Newton will take over the role of Cassie Lang from d Emma Fuhrmann, and Jonathan Majors, who played He Who Remains in the Loki series, returns to play the villain Kang the Conqueror.

Directed by Peyton Reed, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is set to be released in theaters on July 28, 2023. This is currently the last MCU movie that has a confirmed release date.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.