‘Quantumania’ Screenwriter Jeff Loveness on Bill Murray, Michelle Pfeiffer and His Vision for ‘Avengers: The Kang Dynasty’
variety.comAdam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending, of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” currently playing in theaters.
One day in early 2020, Jeff Loveness got a call from his agent telling him to go to the Marvel Studios offices in Burbank by 3 p.m.
that day, with no further information. It wasn’t until he walked into the meeting room and saw director Peyton Reed — who’d helmed Marvel’s “Ant-Man” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp” — that Loveness understood that he was there to talk about a third movie starring Paul Rudd’s incredible shrinking superhero.
But then Loveness was asked a surprising question: “Do you have a take on Kang the Conqueror?” Loveness had never written a screenplay that had become a finished film, but as a veteran writer on the beloved Adult Swim series “Rick and Morty,” he did have extensive experience with writing outré science fiction steeped in the mind-bending realms of time travel and multiple dimensions.
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