Yes ok Deadpool and Wolverine It has been one of Marvel Studios’ biggest hits since Avengers: Endgamethe third installment of the saga starring Ryan Reynolds was about to fall into the abyss if it had not been for the true savior of this film: Hugh Jackman.
Through an interview with the American media Variety, the film’s director Shawn Levy He assured that, before the arrival of Hugh Jackman, both he and Ryan Reynolds had planned to make a call with Kevin Feige to tell him that they needed a couple more years to find a story at the level of the Merc with a Mouth.
“We worked for months to nail Deadpool 3. We didn’t get it. Every idea seemed too big for Deadpool or too small for Marvel. We failed. We scheduled a Zoom to say to Kevin Feige, ‘Let’s come back to this in a year or so.’ two'”.
Shortly before that meeting an angel in the shape of a Canadian fell from heaven. Hugh Jackman called Shawn Levy and told him that he wanted to return to the role of Wolverine, but accompanied by one of his best/worst friends: Deadpool. From here, the draft of the project had a snowball effect that ended on top with a film that has grossed more than a billion dollars at the box office.
Now it remains to be known what the future of Wade Wilson and Logan will be in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it is clear that the House of Ideas will have them again in the company’s next projects, being the films of Avengers the deliveries that are most likely to appear both characters.
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