Ryan Reynolds Has Broken Silence About 'Deadpool 3' Saying That Updates Are Coming
While Kevin Feige and the filmmakers working within the MCU seek to make uplifting, family friendly superhero movies and shows, Ryan Reynolds and his portrayal of Deadpool do nearly the exact opposite. The films are certainly still uplifting, and fans loved the first two Deadpool films and their brash, loud mouth and lethal main character. However, it is at the "family friendly" junction where Deadpool and the MCU greatly diverge. While he may have the looks of Freddy Kruegar, Deadpool won over audiences with the determination and filthy wit of the character, awesome action sequences, a fresh take on the superhero genre, and the perfect amount of gratuitous violence.
The highly anticipated third movie in Deadpool's story is still a couple years away at least, but fans are eager to see how Deadpool will be brought into the world of the Avengers. Like fans of any modern movie franchise, Marvel and Deadpool fans are already building hype and speculating wildly on what exacting Deadpool 3 could consist of. After the Fox-Disney merger in 2019, Disney acquired the rights to Deadpool, X-Men, and the term "mutants." Given the cultural and financial success of the MCU and Deadpool, and the continuing popularity of the X-Men characters, it is only a matter of time (or phases) before Disney introduces the Avengers to the mutant X-Men, to the joy of multitudes of fans.
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While promoting his new Netflix film, The Adam Project, Ryan Reynolds, the man behind the Deadpool mask, was of course asked about the upcoming third installment of the series. In the world of internet spoilers and speculation the star was obviously tight lipped about the whole project, saying;
“...I’ll say this about that particular subject, is I’ll have a batch of updates on that sooner rather than later, I hope. So I’ll be able to get into stuff about Deadpool a little bit more clearly and definitively down the road.”
So far, all we really know about the film is that it will once again star Reynolds as the "Merc with a Mouth" and will (hopefully) film sometime this year. Feige has said that the film has a scheduled release date internally at Marvel Studios and, given the multiple premier dates of "TBD" movies on Disney's calendar, it's a good bet that one of them is Deadpool 3. An observant fan has only to look two years ahead as 2024 has four such slots, when a mystery movie is scheduled to debut. Fingers crossed that one of these films will be Deadpool 3.
Deadpool and the associated franchise have become Ryan Reynolds cinematic baby, as he was a huge advocate for the character and exactly who fans wanted to see cast as Deadpool, long before the first movie was filmed. Reynolds has reassured fans who have feared the "Disney-fying" of Deadpool, saying that he is committed to "doing some pretty wildly divergent or having some wildly divergent uses for the character" and he won't agree to any projects that don't utilize Deadpool in that way. This demonstrates Reynolds grasp of the character as Deadpool has always been a wildcard in the comic realm; Fourth Wall breaks, insulting and critiquing fan-favorite heroes, and murder and mayhem on a grand scale.
Hopefully we will hear official news about Deadpool 3 in the very near future. The film is believed to currently be in pre-production, so in all likelihood, the news that Reynolds references in his quote will a filming start date and a release window, and perhaps even a more comprehensive cast list and plot synopsis, but that might be too much to hope for. It is also not out of the question that Deadpool will make an appearance in Multiverse of Madness, as this seems to be the project that will bring all the superhero universes together under the MCU banner. The end credit scenes of Multiverse would be a very fitting place for the "Merc with a Mouth" to make his MCU debut.
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Source(s): The Direct, Collider
