Premiere: July 26, 2024
In late November 2020, Deadline reported that Deadpool 3 had found its writing team in Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin, meaning the project was finally kicking into gear. Ryan Reynolds will obviously be returning as Deadpool himself, as his name has become almost synonymous with the character ever since it got successfully rebooted in 2016’s Deadpool, after an atrocious first appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
With Ryan Reynolds announcing ‘a little sabbatical from movie making’ in October 2021, the project seemed to have been indefinitely postponed. It wouldn’t be until March 2022 that news regarding the project would finally surface. Following the streaming debut of The Adam Project, the second collaboration between Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy, it was confirmed that the latter would be directing the Merc with a Mouth‘s upcoming threequel. He’ll be the franchise’s third director following Tim Miller and David Leicht. The same day it was also learned that both Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote the first two Deadpool installments, would be returning to the writers’ table.
In late September 2022, Reynolds confirmed that the project not only had a September 2024 release date set but that none other than Hugh Jackman would be joining the project playing his most iconic role ever: Wolverine.
Deadpool 3 ended up being of the few Marvel feature films affected by an October 2022 shift in release dates. It moved two months from its initial September 2024 slot to November 8, 2024. Following the WGA and SAG strikes, Deadpool 3‘s release date was moved again–this time to July 26, 2024, amid a major overhaul of Marvel Studios theatrical release slate.
On February 11th, 2024, the film’s first trailer revealed the title to be Deadpool & Wolverine.
Cast
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool
- Hugh Jackman as James Howlett / Wolverine
- Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova
- Matthew Macfadyen as Paradox
- Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlyle
- Stefan Kapicic as Colossus
- Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
- Karan Soni as Dopinder
- Rob Delany as Peter
- Aaron Stanford as John Allerdyce/Pyro
