‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Originally Had A Captain America Cameo
Ant-Man and the Waspalmost had a hilarious Captain America cameo, but directorPeyton Reeddecided to cut it, because he doesn’t want us to have nice things. Read all about the Captain America cameo below.
One of the most memorable running gags fromSpider-Man: Homecominginvolved PSAs featuringChris Evansas Captain America. They gave Evans a chance to flex his comedic muscles (instead of just his regular, giant man muscles), and garnered big laughs. Well, it turns out we almost had yetanotherhilarious Chris Evans Captain America cameo in a recent Marvel movie.
Alas, it didn’t come to pass. Speaking withRadio Times,Ant-Man and the Waspdirector Peyton Reed revealed that the script originally featured a cameo from ole Cap, but was ultimately cut to keep the film as a standalone movie. If the cameo had happened, it would’ve recreated the famous tarmac fight fromCaptain America: Civil War, as retold by Ant-Man/Scott Lang’s buddy Luis (Michael Peña). This makes the fact that we lost the cameo even more disappointing, because one of my favorite things from the twoAnt-Manmovies are the scenes where Peña recounts events at lightning speed while we see hilarious recreations of them, complete with Peña’s voice coming out of other actor’s mouths. Here’s how Reed described the scene:
“Early on, we had a version where we were going to do a quick version of the tarmac fight from Civil War, with some ridiculous thing where, you know, Captain America has Ant-Man as a baseball and throws him. Because the whole thing is Luis' version of events, right? We came up with all these ridiculous visuals.”
Sadly, the scene was never shot, so it won’t pop-up on the eventualAnt-Man and the WaspBlu-ray. “It kind of felt like we’d referencedCaptain America: Civil Warso much, let’s just do our own thing there,” Reed said, adding:
“The idea was that this really wanted to be a little bit more standalone and in its own world…We knew that we wanted to continue the story of these characters and then introduce our own characters that were really far more relevant to the story we were telling…Plus the fact that we were coming right after Infinity War, which is really likeeveryone.”
Look, I get all that. I really do. And I like the fact thatAnt-Man and the Waspis one of those rare Marvel Cinematic Universe films that stands alone. Still, now that I know of this potential cameo, it’s hard to not be disappointed it never happened.
