American media Entertainment Weekly put an end to the persistent rumor of the star’s presence in the next Marvel Studios film.
The news ended months of speculation. Taylor Swift will not appear in the next Marvel Deadpool and Wolverine found Entertainment Weekly . The rumor of her presence in the film, notably in the guise of the mutant Dazzler, had persisted for months. Several facts fueled the gossip, including the star’s meeting with Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios.
It was last October that the rumor gained momentum. When the two main actors of the film, Ryan Reynolds accompanied by his partner Blake Lively and Hugh Jackman as well as the director Shawn Levy attended the Kansas City Chiefs game with the singer. Fans then saw it as the long-awaited confirmation of the gossip.
A new poster for the film unveiled on June 10, showing the hands of the two heroes intertwined with bracelets on their wrists resembling those distributed to the public attending the singer’s triumphant Eras Tour, reinforced the rumor.
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Far from denying it, the director played on the ambiguity, the rumor offering him the opportunity for great publicity around the film, before its release on July 24. After a difficult year with the criticized releases of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania And The Marvels Marvel Studios are betting big on the resumption of the license that has been exploited until now by the 20th Century Fox. The issue is financial, since it is the only film from the Disney subsidiary scheduled this year.
In an interview in May, posted online by the American site Fandango, Ryan Reynolds however denied this desire on the part of the director: “Dishonesty was not required. With these kinds of films, there’s always a lot of speculation about who might appear in them. (…). Anything can happen and that’s what I like most about this universe and this world. Surprises are the essence of Deadpool. he declared then.
For this film which celebrates the return to the Marvel fold of the X-Men universe, the superhero played by Ryan Reynolds will explore, like his friends Spider-man or Doctor Strange, the concept of the multiverse. The first images directed by Shawn Levy showed the superhero Deadpool accompanied by the clawed hero Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman. The American actor had abandoned his yellow and blue costume since the film Logan in 2017.
Deadpool and Wolverine will come face to face with the film’s big villain, Cassandra Nova, played by the actress from The Crown , Emma Corrin. Among the nods that Reynolds’ films are full of, a fight between Deadpool and Wolverine in a parallel universe in front of the ruins of the 2Oth Century Fox logo, echoing the fall of the studio – which owned the rights to the X-Men – before its acquisition by Disney.
