Where is Luis in 'Ant-Man 3'? Director Explains Why Michael Pena Is Missing From the Movie

Fans checking out Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in theaters this weekend might be surprised to see that franchise star Michael Pena is not in the movie.

The 47-year-old actor plays Scott Lang’s former cellmate Luis in 2015′s Ant-Man and the 2018 sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Quantumania director Peyton Reed explained Luis’ absence from the movie in a new interview.

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“There were no versions of this movie [with Luis]. There are a lot of characters in the movie,” Peyton told THR. “We obviously have our Lang, van Dyne and Pym family, but then we also introduced Kang, MODOK and all of our Freedom Fighter characters. So we had to make decisions early on about what stories we could tell and what stories we couldn’t tell. I love those characters. They were really, really fun and part of the Lang family, but as we got further and further into [development] and knew we wanted to bring the family into the Quantum Realm pretty early in the movie, it just didn’t make sense [to include Luis and co.].”

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