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Rumor report: Will Ant-Man 3 drop an MCU bombshell?

And Marvel Studios said unto the world, "Let the great rumor mill spin."

Yes, that ever-spinning mill has indeed been working overtime of late, most recently churning out the unconfirmed report that a new film featuring a certain quantum realm dweller and his crew may be in the works. We refer, of course, to the pint-sized (or, if the mood strikes him, Giant-sized) Avenger Scott Lang, AKA Ant-Man (Paul Rudd). Now, a new rumor has surfaced — one which suggests that the flick, if it happens, might herald the debut of the MCU's Young Avengers.

Most Marvel fans are already well aware that Ant-Man's MCU status has been a bit up in the air — not because Lang and his paramour-slash-partner the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) didn't make it through the showdown with Thanos featured in Avengers: Endgame, but because a new Ant-Man film was conspicuously left out of Marvel's mammoth Hall H panel at SDCC 2019.

With Ant-Man's absence on the Phase 4 timeline, many fans were left wondering what would become of the quippiest of Avengers. To date, Marvel has yet to confirm the fate of the Ant-Man franchise, spawning rumors that the studio may either be planning to take the Ant-Man and the Wasp team to the small-screen via the Disney+ streaming platform, or that it might not be planning to move forward with a new Ant-Man tale at all, and that Scott Lang's quantum realm-jumping days in the MCU may actually be over.

Those fears appeared to be put to rest when rumor guru and self-proclaimed Marvel Studios insider Charles Murphy recently ran with a story (picked up by the rumor-loving bunch at We Got This Covered) that Ant-Man 3 is now in the works at Marvel, and that the film may be slotting into Phase 5 of the MCU with a July 29, 2022 release date. Furthermore, Murphy reported that Rudd and Lilly would be reprising their roles as the insect-themed, crime-fighting duo, with Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer presumably returning as Dr. Hank Pym and O.G. Wasp Janet Van Dyne, respectively.

Now would be a good time to reiterate that Marvel has not yet confirmed that Ant-Man 3 is a go for the MCU's Phase 5 or beyond — or that the film is even a possibility — so make of the above rumor what you will. Mr. Murphy has produced accurate info on occasion, but you know what they say about broken clocks.

He did, however, go on to offer another whopper in regards to the possible narrative arc of Ant-Man 3, and it involves Scott Lang's now teen-aged daughter Cassie (portrayed by Emma Fuhrmann in Avengers: Endgame). As first reported by WGTC, the latest bit of MCU conjecture involves Cassie Lang following in the footsteps of her incredible shrinking daddy, and donning her own shrinking suit to fight crime — an arc that would then open the door for Marvel's Young Avengers to make their first appearance in the MCU. Boom!