Deadpool & Wolverine

 

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: RELEASE DATE, TRAILER, CAST & MORE

WE LOOK BACK AT WHERE THE MERC WITH A MOUTH HAS BEEN, HOW HE ENDED UP IN THE MCU, WHO ELSE IS JOINING HIM, AND MORE.

Your old pal Deadpool will soon be back. While that means a new movie, it also means another strange and funny media blitz, care of the Merc with a Mouth and his human caretaker, actor Ryan Reynolds. Indeed, Wade Wilson (Deadpool’s civilian name) began his latest operation to place 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, questions remain as Deadpool’s universe has utterly changed since last we saw him. The separate X-Men universe he resided in ended with Dark Phoenix and his Mutant brethren have yet to make themselves known in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For someone who knows he is a fictional character controlled and traded by multinational corporations, Wade must be aware that he’s a Disney character, right? One joke in the teaser confirms 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.

 

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. As for Stewart, the profile of a bald head appears in the trailer, but it could be any number of characters or even variants of Professor X. Also, eagle-eyed viewers of the trailer are speculating whether or not Doctor Doom is present in one of the teaser’s many shots of a desert wasteland.

Emma Corrin and Matthew Macfadyen join the ensemble for this installment. Corrin’s character is said to be the principal antagonist while Macfadyen is the face of TVA Agent Paradox. As there are several characters who go by that name in Marvel lore, it is unclear which Paradox he may be inspired by, although some online conjecture is marking him as a trans-dimensional judge who debuted in a run of She-Hulk. Prior to the teaser’s release, Mcdayden’s character was said to be something of a “third wheel” on Deadpool and Wolverine’s journey. Additionally, Reynolds made a big splash in November 2023 by announcing animal actor Peggy will appear as Dogpool.

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 company of filmmakers, so it will be interesting 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 look on screen. As it happens, 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 rules 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 crew 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 move to feature film editing after years in shorts and music videos. He also edited 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.