The character played by Laurence Fishburne got into a humorous conversation with Scott Lang where the two compared how big they could grow, prompting Hope van Dyne to make a quip about sizing, but that’s the extent of Foster’s superheroics in the film. But at one point, the filmmakers planned for a scene that showed him as Goliath.

“We had a draft when Ava [Starr AKA Ghost] is recounting her backstory, and then there was a version where Bill was recounting a backstory,” director Peyton Reed said on the Empire Film Podcast. “At one point we were going to have one brief flashback with young Hank Pym and young Bill Foster where he reaches his 21 feet in trying [to grow]. And it just felt, narratively, it just was too much of a left turn. As much as we felt like it might get a big cheer from a small percentage of Marvel Comics fans, it just was too far a reach. But who knows for the future.”

While the film did not show Bill utilizing the tech to enlarge as Goliath, the film does end with the character seemingly repairing his relationship with Hank. This possibly leaves the door open for a future partnership to take shape, though it seems unlikely that the character will get his own spinoff movie.

But the actor is not opposed to some more heroics in the future. While speaking with Den of Geek, Fishburne revealed that he would like to suit up as Goliath in a future film.

“If it happens, if I get to suit up, great. If I don’t get to suit up, at least I’m in the MCU,” Fishburne said.

The actor added that he was not a major Ant-Man fan growing up, despite being an avid comic book reader.

“I was not familiar with Bill Foster, ’cause I wasn’t an Ant-Man reader,” Fishburne revealed. “Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Avengers, Hulk, Iron Fist; I was in that world. Ant-Man, I never really got to, but Bill Foster’s a cool character.”

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Ant-Man and The Wasp is heading to theaters, and thankfully the lovable Luis is along for the ride, and a new TV spot reveals his love for Pez and The Wasp.

In the new TV Spot, Luis (Michael Pena) is riding along with The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) and quickly seems to adjust to the ever-changing size of their van. Wasp lets loose that gigantic Hello Kitty Pez dispenser and Luis couldn’t be happier, exclaiming “Oh you got Pez!” as it takes out a vehicle behind them.

Luis and his crew were easily one of the highlights of the original Ant-Man, so it’s awesome to have them back along for the ride in the sequel. In this case, it seems they will be helping Hank Pym and company rather than attempting to steal from them. Hank might not be completely over that yet if the trailers are anything to go by. Personally, Hank wouldn’t mind going one-on-one with Luis in a boxing ring.

In this film, the focus will be on the new partnership between Ant-Man and The Wasp, one that starts out a bit strained according to director Peyton Reed.

“Well, the movie is absolutely about Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, and Hope becoming Wasp, and really at the beginning of our movie their relationship has some distance in it, and their relationship is a little fractured,” Reed told ComicBook.com. “It really is about whether these two people can come together and work together as heroes, and also as people.” Hope has to learn it’s okay to have a partner she can trust and rely on.

“I think for Hope particularly, the question is out there: “Do I need this guy in my life? I’m a fully formed hero in my own right, do I need a partner?” That was really a fun kind of premise to start from,” Reed said.

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While Avengers: Infinity War was already packed with more than 30 key principal heroes, the Defenders and Agents of SHIELD characters almost got pulled into the mix. Ultimately, it was a creative decision made based on the theatrical experience as this film was a culmination of 18 movies and was never intended to bring together our heroes from Netflix or cable.

“We made the briefest consideration of [including TV characters in Infinity War],” Anthony Russo told Variety. “When we’re alone in a room with [screenwriters Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely, we consider every idea. We like thinking of everything. But it seemed like the story that had been told within the movies was so specific and elaborate already that once we started working through the story, we knew we had our hands full just with this set of characters and narratives.”

In the mean time, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Colleen Wing are fighting their own battles on the ground level of New York City. On the other hand, the sibling directors never made much consideration of including the Fantastic Four or X-Men characters due to their being owned by Fox. Honestly, including the X-Men characters would’ve been overkill.

“I think just as far as where that specific deal is at right now, it’s not at the point where we can start working with those characters on a creative level yet,” Anthony Russo said. “We’d love to and hopefully it will all work out some day, but it’s not in the time frame of these movies that we’re making right now.”

Such a fact, however, has not stopped the Russo Brothers from having exciting ideas in mind for those Fox characters should they come back to Disney and Marvel Studios for inclusion in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Word from the fine folks over at Deadline says the members of the Transformers writing collective have signed on with Marvel Studios to co-write the upcoming sequel to this summer’s Phase 2 finale, alongside its star, Paul Rudd.

  Barrer and Ferrari aren’t exactly strangers to the world of Ant-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as their previous ‘steez’ include production re-write work for the original film, following the fairly noisy departure of the film’s original chosen director, Edgar Wright. Barrer, Ferrari and Rudd will work alongside another ‘almost’ helmer of the size-altering superhero flick, Adam McKay, on the script before work begins on the full screenplay.

Ant-Man & Wasp will see the return of Paul Rudd as Scott Lang and Evangeline Lily as Hope Van Dyne as the titular Wasp, and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man.

“That was one of the things that was important to me in the first movie when I came on was emphasizing the Wasp more, both Hope Van Dyne and Janet Van Dyne,”  stated Reed “It’s a crucial part. It’s a crucial part because in the comic books, with the exception of the first handful of Ant-Man stories, Wasp came on pretty early on in the comics in the ’60s and you really thought of them as a partnership, a romantic partnership as well as a hero team. It’s going to be fun to play around with all the aspects of that in this movie.”

Ant-Man & The Wasp is slated for release on July 6, 2018 in what will be the MCU’s Phase 3.

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