Peña’s Ant-Man 3 comments included him saying “I don’t know if [Marvel will] use me for the third movie, I still really don’t know.”
Peña’s crack about Ant-Man 3 may yet prove to be more on the money than even he could have predicted.
The second Ant-Man movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp, opens in theaters this summer and finished filming in November last year.
In his original interview, it’s likely that Peña was simply assuming that the plan was to eventually make an Ant-Man movie trilogy, like what Marvel Studios has already done with such characters as Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor.