Your old friend Deadpool will shortly be back. While that means a new movie, it also means another odd and hilarious media campaign, care of the Merc with a Mouth and his human custodian, actor Ryan Reynolds. Indeed, Wade Wilson (Deadpool’s civilian name) initiated his latest operation to position himself in the minds of moviegoers sometime ago, but it went into overdrive with a commercial for the teaser trailer during the Big Game in February.
Nevertheless, concerns persist as Deadpool’s universe has utterly changed since last we saw him. The discrete X-Men universe he resided in ended with Dark Phoenix and his Mutant companions have yet to make themselves known in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For someone who understands he is a fictional character controlled and traded by multinational corporations, Wade must be aware that he’s a Disney character, right? One quip in the teaser verifies it!
Let’s take a look at everything we know about Deadpool & Wolverine and see if we can’t determine how much he really knows about his new state of affairs.
When we last saw Wade, he lost his adored Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), joined the X-Men, faced off against Cable (Josh Brolin), managed to repair the timestream, save Vanessa, and erase the Green Lantern film from existence.
And then his film rights returned to Marvel when Disney acquired most of 20th Century Fox in 2019.
Not long after, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige acknowledged work had begun on developing a third Deadpool film and that it would the company’s first R-rated tale. Devised without too much incident — beyond first and second film writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick replacing the initial team of Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin — it also evaded a lot of the turmoil surrounding Marvel’s production process in the last few years. Even the writer and actor strikes of 2023 couldn’t delay the film too much. It is, in fact, the only Marvel feature scheduled for release this year.
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As disclosed in the trailer, Wade spent the last several years in relative calm with Vanessa and his companions surrounding him. But then the Time Variance Authority — last seen in the closing moments of Loki‘s second season — comes calling, and an agent named Paradox co-opts him into a mission of… Well, we presume it’s essential, even if succeeding sequences see Deadpool battling TVA hunters.
Presumably, discovering his position in dimensions both foreign and familiar will occupy much of Deadpool’s time in the film. The presence of the TVA will validate for him any lingering suspicion his reality has been altered — although the quip about pegging being novel for Disney suggests he’s already aware of that particular change.
Another reason why he proclaims himself “Marvel Jesus.”
See also: the end of the trailer released on April 22nd in which he mentions Feige’s desire to avoid cocaine (and its numerous vernacular names) as a topic in the film.
His mission will feature a few familiar faces, including the second title character (more on him in a moment), and even some truly surprising guest characters as the film both says goodbye to the way things used to be and embraces the fact Deadpool’s life will be more Marvel and more Cinematic going forward. It will also be something of a road movie a la Midnight Run or Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Oh, and we presume it will be the formal introduction of Mutants into the MCU after references in Ms. Marvel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and The Marvels. Also, we still like to believe Deadpool’s introduction to the universe is the incursion Steven Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Clea (Charlize Theron) rushed off to combat at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The presence of a sling ring portal in the April trailer implies it is possible they will appear. Then again, the presence of the TVA may mean Clea’s incursion will have to wait for another film.
Where In The World Is Deadpool?
Thanks to the way Marvel films and the X-Men movies before them operated, Deadpool can go just about anywhere. Deadpool 2 saw Wade squatting in the X-Mansion and heading to the frigid environs of the Ice Box. The first film took place in a metro area that suspiciously resembled Vancouver.
Also, one image in the trailer featuring the rear of a famous Marvel Mutant suggests the criminal city of Madripoor will feature in at least one sequence. It was last seen in The Falcon and the Winter Solider.
But the locale of the film is one of its more intriguing puzzles. Thanks to the nature of the Marvel Multiverse, he could still be in the familiar Fox reality of the elder X-Men pictures. Then again, he could rouse up and perceive that something isn’t right. Considering a fairly infamous picture from the set featuring a disintegrated 20th Century Fox logo (glimpsed in both trailers), though, he may also appear in between universes as one ends and another begins. Some of speculated the desolation with the old Fox logo featured in both trailers is, in fact, the same place as Loki‘s Citadel at the End of Time. Or, at the very least, the Fox equivalent of the same notion.
No matter what, expect to see the X-Men’s mansion and maybe even the MCU’s New York before Wade discovers a new method to satirize the Marvel end-credit stinger scene.
Deadpool Characters In Search Of An Author
As mentioned above, Reynolds resumes his employment as Deadpool in the film. But in a startling decision, he will be accompanied by Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. The latter previously proclaimed he would retire from the role following 2017’s Logan, but he and Reynolds began a subtle game of back-and-forth about that declaration on social media. The posts and retorts culminated when Reynolds posted a video of himself and Jackman to confirm the return.
Subsequent set photos also revealed that, for the first time ever, Jackman will wear a more “accurate” Wolverine costume with the yellow and blue color scheme — a notable change as Jackman’s Wolverine once complained about the X-Men’s all-black attire to hear Cyclops (James Marsden) say, “What would you prefer, yellow spandex?”
The trailer published in April also offers a couple of indications into the state of Wolverine. He seemingly isn’t the same one featured in Logan or X-Men: Days of Future Past. Instead, he is another take on the character who “let down” his world and attempts to drink the remorse away — although he seems to be so universally reviled that even bartenders want nothing to do with him. Deadpool also implies that this Wolverine saved the universe, so anticipate his distinctions from the character as depicted in previous films to become a plot point.
Unless, of course, he is the Logan from Days of Future Past. That could have some intriguing ramifications.
Other returning players include Leslie Uggams as Wade’s former roommate, Blind Al; Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, the apathetic and phone-obsessed junior X-Man; Shiori Kutsuna as Yukio, Negasonic’s mutant girlfriend; Karan Soni as faithful taxicab driver Dopinder; Stefan Kapičić as the voice of metallic X-Man Colossus; and Rob Delaney as Peter, the thoroughly human member of Deadpool’s short-lived X-Force team. Also, set photographs indicate a version of the Sabretooth from the original 2000 X-Men will appear, but it is unclear if Tyler Mane will reprise the role. After the photo was published, Reynolds took an unusual measure and asked admirers not to repost surveillance images from the set to preserve the film’s secrets.
The cast also goes deeper with reports that Patrick Stewart will make a cameo appearance — at the very least — as Charles Xavier and that Jennifer Garner will once again play Elektra, a Marvel character she previous portrayed in Fox’s Daredevil and Elektra films, though it remains to be seen just how extensive her participation will be. Also, eagle-eyed viewers of the teaser trailer are speculating whether or not Doctor Doom is present in one of its many views of an arid desolation.
Those Who Would Create Deadpool
After directing Reynolds in Free Guy and The Adam Project, Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy became the actor’s preferred choice to helm the film, taking over from Deadpool 2’s David Leitch and the first film’s Tim Miller. It is an illustrious society of filmmakers, so it will be fascinating to see how Levy, who also directed Jackman in 2011’s Real Steel, adapts to the specific challenges of a Deadpool movie and a Marvel production.
Levy also receives a writing credit alongside Marvel Studios veteran Zeb Wells, Reynolds, Wernick, Reese, Molyneux, and Molyneux-Logelin — we can’t wait to see how that credit will appear on screen. As it occurs, Reynolds’ participation in the story and his tendency to ad-lib caused some concern in the early days of the Writer’s Strike, as guild regulations prohibited him from doing anything besides what was written in the extant script pages. Production was delayed and eventually shut down as the actors also went on strike. It resumed in November.
Reynolds and Levy also serve as producers alongside Feige and X-Men film stalwart Simon Kinberg.
Additional personnel includes director of photography George Richmond of Free Guy and the two mainline Kingsman films, editor Shane Reid, production designer Ray Chan, costume designers Graham Churchyard and Mayes C. Rubeo, and composer Rob Simonsen. For Reid, the film continues his transition to feature film editing after years in commercials and music videos. He also edited 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
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Your old friend Deadpool will shortly be back. While that means a new movie, it also means another odd and hilarious media campaign, care of the Merc with a Mouth and his human custodian, actor Ryan Reynolds. Indeed, Wade Wilson (Deadpool’s civilian name) initiated his latest operation to position himself in the minds of moviegoers sometime ago, but it went into overdrive with a commercial for the teaser trailer during the Big Game in February.
Nevertheless, concerns persist as Deadpool’s universe has utterly changed since last we saw him. The discrete X-Men universe he resided in ended with Dark Phoenix and his Mutant companions have yet to make themselves known in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For someone who understands he is a fictional character controlled and traded by multinational corporations, Wade must be aware that he’s a Disney character, right? One quip in the teaser verifies it!
Let’s take a look at everything we know about Deadpool & Wolverine and see if we can’t determine how much he really knows about his new state of affairs.
When we last saw Wade, he lost his adored Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), joined the X-Men, faced off against Cable (Josh Brolin), managed to repair the timestream, save Vanessa, and erase the Green Lantern film from existence.
And then his film rights returned to Marvel when Disney acquired most of 20th Century Fox in 2019.
Not long after, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige acknowledged work had begun on developing a third Deadpool film and that it would the company’s first R-rated tale. Devised without too much incident — beyond first and second film writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick replacing the initial team of Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin — it also evaded a lot of the turmoil surrounding Marvel’s production process in the last few years. Even the writer and actor strikes of 2023 couldn’t delay the film too much. It is, in fact, the only Marvel feature scheduled for release this year.
As disclosed in the trailer, Wade spent the last several years in relative calm with Vanessa and his companions surrounding him. But then the Time Variance Authority — last seen in the closing moments of Loki‘s second season — comes calling, and an agent named Paradox co-opts him into a mission of… Well, we presume it’s essential, even if succeeding sequences see Deadpool battling TVA hunters.
Presumably, discovering his position in dimensions both foreign and familiar will occupy much of Deadpool’s time in the film. The presence of the TVA will validate for him any lingering suspicion his reality has been altered — although the quip about pegging being novel for Disney suggests he’s already aware of that particular change.
Another reason why he proclaims himself “Marvel Jesus.”
See also: the end of the trailer released on April 22nd in which he mentions Feige’s desire to avoid cocaine (and its numerous vernacular names) as a topic in the film.
His mission will feature a few familiar faces, including the second title character (more on him in a moment), and even some truly surprising guest characters as the film both says goodbye to the way things used to be and embraces the fact Deadpool’s life will be more Marvel and more Cinematic going forward. It will also be something of a road movie a la Midnight Run or Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Oh, and we presume it will be the formal introduction of Mutants into the MCU after references in Ms. Marvel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and The Marvels. Also, we still like to believe Deadpool’s introduction to the universe is the incursion Steven Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Clea (Charlize Theron) rushed off to combat at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The presence of a sling ring portal in the April trailer implies it is possible they will appear. Then again, the presence of the TVA may mean Clea’s incursion will have to wait for another film.
Where In The World Is Deadpool?
Thanks to the way Marvel films and the X-Men movies before them operated, Deadpool can go just about anywhere. Deadpool 2 saw Wade squatting in the X-Mansion and heading to the frigid environs of the Ice Box. The first film took place in a metro area that suspiciously resembled Vancouver.
Also, one image in the trailer featuring the rear of a famous Marvel Mutant suggests the criminal city of Madripoor will feature in at least one sequence. It was last seen in The Falcon and the Winter Solider.
But the locale of the film is one of its more intriguing puzzles. Thanks to the nature of the Marvel Multiverse, he could still be in the familiar Fox reality of the elder X-Men pictures. Then again, he could rouse up and perceive that something isn’t right. Considering a fairly infamous picture from the set featuring a disintegrated 20th Century Fox logo (glimpsed in both trailers), though, he may also appear in between universes as one ends and another begins. Some of speculated the desolation with the old Fox logo featured in both trailers is, in fact, the same place as Loki‘s Citadel at the End of Time. Or, at the very least, the Fox equivalent of the same notion.
No matter what, expect to see the X-Men’s mansion and maybe even the MCU’s New York before Wade discovers a new method to satirize the Marvel end-credit stinger scene.
Deadpool Characters In Search Of An Author
As mentioned above, Reynolds resumes his employment as Deadpool in the film. But in a startling decision, he will be accompanied by Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. The latter previously proclaimed he would retire from the role following 2017’s Logan, but he and Reynolds began a subtle game of back-and-forth about that declaration on social media. The posts and retorts culminated when Reynolds posted a video of himself and Jackman to confirm the return.
Subsequent set photos also revealed that, for the first time ever, Jackman will wear a more “accurate” Wolverine costume with the yellow and blue color scheme — a notable change as Jackman’s Wolverine once complained about the X-Men’s all-black attire to hear Cyclops (James Marsden) say, “What would you prefer, yellow spandex?”
The trailer published in April also offers a couple of indications into the state of Wolverine. He seemingly isn’t the same one featured in Logan or X-Men: Days of Future Past. Instead, he is another take on the character who “let down” his world and attempts to drink the remorse away — although he seems to be so universally reviled that even bartenders want nothing to do with him. Deadpool also implies that this Wolverine saved the universe, so anticipate his distinctions from the character as depicted in previous films to become a plot point.
Unless, of course, he is the Logan from Days of Future Past. That could have some intriguing ramifications.
Other returning players include Leslie Uggams as Wade’s former roommate, Blind Al; Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, the apathetic and phone-obsessed junior X-Man; Shiori Kutsuna as Yukio, Negasonic’s mutant girlfriend; Karan Soni as faithful taxicab driver Dopinder; Stefan Kapičić as the voice of metallic X-Man Colossus; and Rob Delaney as Peter, the thoroughly human member of Deadpool’s short-lived X-Force team. Also, set photographs indicate a version of the Sabretooth from the original 2000 X-Men will appear, but it is unclear if Tyler Mane will reprise the role. After the photo was published, Reynolds took an unusual measure and asked admirers not to repost surveillance images from the set to preserve the film’s secrets.
The cast also goes deeper with reports that Patrick Stewart will make a cameo appearance — at the very least — as Charles Xavier and that Jennifer Garner will once again play Elektra, a Marvel character she previous portrayed in Fox’s Daredevil and Elektra films, though it remains to be seen just how extensive her participation will be. Also, eagle-eyed viewers of the teaser trailer are speculating whether or not Doctor Doom is present in one of its many views of an arid desolation.
Those Who Would Create Deadpool
After directing Reynolds in Free Guy and The Adam Project, Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy became the actor’s preferred choice to helm the film, taking over from Deadpool 2’s David Leitch and the first film’s Tim Miller. It is an illustrious society of filmmakers, so it will be fascinating to see how Levy, who also directed Jackman in 2011’s Real Steel, adapts to the specific challenges of a Deadpool movie and a Marvel production.
Levy also receives a writing credit alongside Marvel Studios veteran Zeb Wells, Reynolds, Wernick, Reese, Molyneux, and Molyneux-Logelin — we can’t wait to see how that credit will appear on screen. As it occurs, Reynolds’ participation in the story and his tendency to ad-lib caused some concern in the early days of the Writer’s Strike, as guild regulations prohibited him from doing anything besides what was written in the extant script pages. Production was delayed and eventually shut down as the actors also went on strike. It resumed in November.
Reynolds and Levy also serve as producers alongside Feige and X-Men film stalwart Simon Kinberg.
Additional personnel includes director of photography George Richmond of Free Guy and the two mainline Kingsman films, editor Shane Reid, production designer Ray Chan, costume designers Graham Churchyard and Mayes C. Rubeo, and composer Rob Simonsen. For Reid, the film continues his transition to feature film editing after years in commercials and music videos. He also edited 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
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