KRAVEN THE HUNTER Star Aaron Taylor-Johnson strongly hints at MCU return as Quicksilver

Aaron Taylor-Johnson made his MCU debut as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver in Captain America: The Winter Soldier‘s stinger before taking center stage in the 2015s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Unfortunately, Joss Whedon’s habit of shocking fans by killing off main characters (RIP Agent Coulson) meant the speedster didn’t make it to the end credits.

Looking back at the subsequent films, it’s hard not to wonder how different the MCU could have been if Quicksilver had been a part of it. Could he have helped turn the tide against Thanos? And what other movies or TV shows could we have seen him in?

We’ll never know, but in a new interview with Josh Horowitz Kraven the Hunter Star was asked directly if there were ever any talks with Marvel Studios about a possible return as Pietro.

After taking a suspiciously timed drink, he replied: “Well, maybe everything isn’t out there.”

It is possible Kick-Ass The actor is just having fun here, but it suggests that there have been discussions about bringing Quicksilver back from the dead (something the Multiverse does incredibly easily). IN WandaVision, X-Men Franchise star Evan Peters was used as a stand-in, only for us to find out he was a Westview resident controlled by Agatha Harkness instead of a Multiversal Variant.

Recently, Taylor-Johnson called Scarlet Witch actress Elizabeth Olsen a “phenomenal actor, absolute star and wonderful person, wonderful human being” and briefly acknowledged that Peters appeared as a new version of Quicksilver in the WandaVision when he joked “I don’t know why she didn’t revive me though.”

There are no hard feelings, however, as Taylor-Johnson added, “To be honest, (I) have tremendous admiration for what he was able to do with his character, with some things that (he thinks) were amazing and worked really well.”

He later pointed out that Peters’ Quicksilver has “different connections” to the source material, specifically as “(a) comic book character that has that kind of association with Magneto and the House of M.”

Do you think we’ll see Taylor-Johnson return as Quicksilver Avengers: Doomsday and/or Avengers: Secret Wars? It certainly seems more likely now that he doesn’t have a new franchise to play for Kraven the Hunter bombed…

Kraven the Hunter is the action-packed, R-rated, stand-alone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to not only become the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

The cast also includes Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott and Russell Crowe.

Kraven the Hunter now playing in cinemas.