What has Perry White been up to since leaving the Planet?

Fishburne is set to make his debut in the MCU as SHIELD scientist Hank Pym's (Michael Douglas) former assistant Bill Foster (aka Goliath), but the actor is hinting that he's got a greater role to play in the Universe.

"I'm developing something else for Marvel that I can't talk about," he told Collider. "It's gonna be really cool. It's gonna change the world, we hope.

"I went to Marvel and pitched them something that really couldn't work out — there was a lot of legal red tape that just [was] something they couldn't work out.

"But then they came back with the offer for Ant-Man and the Wasp and then they said, 'Hey, what do you think of this?' and I went, 'Oh yeah that, yes!'"

It turns out that Fishburne has had a lifelong love of comics and actually pitched himself to Marvel Studios, after previously working with rival DC Films.

"I got the offer to do Perry White in Man of Steel, I said yes to that," he explained. "Obviously Batman v Superman, I said yes to that. I was unable to be involved in the Justice League movie, scheduling-wise it just wasn't going to work out, but I had wanted very much to be part of the Marvel universe at the same time.

"So I went to them and pitched them a couple of ideas and basically said, 'Look, if there's anything I can do that makes sense for me to do in the Marvel universe, I would love to be involved'. So they came to me with an offer to be Bill Foster in Ant-Man and the Wasp."