It’s hard to say who is most looking forward to the release of Deadpool & Wolverine on our screens on July 24. Is it an audience eager to see the arrival of the loud-mouthed mercenary within the Marvel cinematic universe (the famous MCU), while bringing back Hugh Jackman in the costume – iconic and new on screen – of Wolverine? Or are the Disney pundits counting on the only film from Kevin Feige’s stable this year to raise the bar one catastrophic 2023 box office ?
Still, the two trailers revealed so far have allowed us to understand the broad outlines of the story. Deadpool arrives in the MCU thanks to the TVA inducted in the Loki series and he must clean up a rickety timeline with the help of a variant of the depressive clawed mutant. Along the way, they will confront each other, then the very powerful Cassandra Nova accompanied by former figures from the X-Men franchise (and others?).
A pitch which has undergone a long gestation and is the result of many discussions between Ryan Reynolds, master thinker of the trilogy Dead Pool, and Kevin Feige. According to the latter, the first was overflowing with different ideas and concepts to introduce his character and Wolverine into the MCU. When one was not suitable, he came back with twenty-five other proposals.
Ryan Reynolds took advantage of an interview at Empire Magazine to reveal some of his plans. Deadpool & Wolverine could, for example, have been a film presented from three different points of view. He also imagined making one “Sundance movie” (named after the festival dedicated to independent cinema) with a budget of less than 10 million dollars, then the exact opposite, then the in-between… We can very well imagine Reynolds’ enthusiasm on the subject with a tempting Feige to maintain a feasible framework, especially since the subject of the integration of mutants within the superheroic universe is one of the current priorities of the MCU.
Deadpool and no Wolverine?
Especially since the major selling point of this third opus is, obviously, the presence of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, it almost turned out differently on the advice of Feige.
Jackman said that when he accepted Reynolds’ offer to join after years of tossing around, the Marvel Studios boss called him and tried to talk him out of it. According to the latter, Jackman’s farewell to the character in the film Logan were so powerful that perhaps we shouldn’t take the risk of coming back and ruining everything. For now, we would rather agree with Feige.
While waiting to know if Deadpool & Wolverine will be able to allay our fears on this subject, we take advantage of the interview Empire to please yourself with some new images devoted mainly to the claw.
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