'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' Is Jodorowsky's 'Dune' Within Marvel, Says Film's Writer

Turns out the elusive Quantum Realm has a lot in common with Arrakis.

"Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" scribe Jeff Loveness compared its script to Alejandro Jodorwosky's never-filmed adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune" sci-fi series, adding a complex layer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"It's 'Jodorowsky's Dune' within Marvel," Loveness told Empire. "It's a fun place. It's a place of limitless creativity, diversity, and extraterrestrial life."

"Jodorwosky's Dune" is a 2013 documentary about director Jodorwosky attempting to adapt "Dune" in the mid-1970s. Film rights expired in 1982 after Jodorwosky ran out of funding; David Lynch finally directed the 1984 movie "Dune" starring Kyle McLachlan.

Denis Villeneuve has resurrected the source material with 2021's 'Dune', followed by the upcoming sequel 'Dune: Part Two', which is slated for release on November 3. "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," directed by Peyton Reed, hits theaters February 17.

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Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has teased that 'Quantumania' is rooted in the family saga of Michelle Pfeiffer finally reuniting her family (Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lilly) after being trapped in the otherworldly dimension .

"It's about how these five family members deal with this environment and the new reality of what their mother/grandmother went through, and that she's a very, very freedom fighter. known and very powerful in the quantum realm," says Feige. "Which none of them had a clue about until they got there."

The film also marks Jonathan Majors' major debut as big bad Kang the Conqueror after his character was revealed in the Disney+ series "Loki." Feige has previously stated that Majors' Kang is "totally different from Thanos" and has multiple incarnations. “It's not just that there's a bigger purple guy with a helmet. That's not what Kang is,” Feige explained. "Kang is a very different type of villain and the fact that he has many, many different characters is what's most exciting and sets him apart the most."

As for Majors' casting as Kang, Feige added, "It's amazing, and I told him there's no one I'd rather put the multiverse saga on. rather than his own. It's really impressive what Jonathan Majors is able to do and all the different incarnations, variants, if you will, of Kang that we're going to see him do. It's really really cool."

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