If it were up to Michael Douglas, his Ant-Man character, Hank Pym, wouldn’t have survived as long as he has in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
While appearing on The View earlier this week, the 79-year-old actor addressed his past comments about his desires to be killed off in the franchise.
“[Death] actually was my request for the third [movie],” Michael explained of his ingenious character who managed to survive the dangerous events in all three films.
“I said I’d like to have a serious [death], with all these great special effects.”
“There’s got to be some fantastic way where I can shrink to an ant size and explode, whatever it is,” he added.
“I want to use all those effects. But, that was on the last one. Now, I don’t think I’m going to show up.”
Michael Douglas’ team didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment.
The Oscar winning-actor first starred as the passionate scientist in 2015’s hit film Ant-Man, which starred Paul Rudd as the miniature superhero.
Michael also appeared in 2018’s sequel, Ant-Man And The Wasp and 2023’s Quantumania.
His latest comments come after he told The Hollywood Reporter in February 2023 that he would return for a fourth film as Pym “as long as I could die”.
While film producer Stephen Broussard noted in a separate interview that Marvel Studios is eyeing a fourth Ant-Man film, considering how badly Quantumania bombed at the box office, we’ll not exactly be holding our breath for another instalment in the franchise.