Deadpool Messiahs Up In 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Super Bowl Teaser
Look maybe Hugh is right and he is an asshole but he still got the spot
The wait for Wade carries on. Marvel Studios and star Ryan Reynolds have released the teaser for the long-awaited third Deadpool movie, now officially titled Deadpool & Wolverine. An abbreviated spot aired during Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers early in the first quarter.
The trailer opens at Wade’s birthday party, frankly revealing much of the screentime for Vanessa, Dopinder, and Blind Al, maybe less so for Negasonic Warhead, Yukio, Colossus, Shatterstar and Peter. Wade has hair, but as he’s abducted by the Time Variance Authority (yes, it’s the TVA! From Loki!) he snarks about pegging and Disney and his hair is torn off and stepped on, returning him to his standard look. Once he wakes up, he’s met by Mr. Paradox, played by Matthew Macfadyen, a character who in the comics is in the same variant family as Loki’s Mobius and Ouroboros, played by Owen Wilson and Ke Huy Quan. Deadpool has been recruited to be a hero among heroes, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From there, there’s plenty of weapons play, and Wolverine is only seen from the back. We have Pyro from the latter two films of the original X-Men trilogy returning, played once again by Aaron Stanford, before Wolverine shows up once again but in shadow to confront the merc with the mouth.
Apparently, fans were able to pick out a character as being Cassandra Nova, a mummdrai, described as a “parasitic life form born bodiless on the astral plane” who upon becoming “telepathically entangled” with Charles Xavier, gained many of his attributes, including a humanoid body and his psionic powers. Those same people are now pointing her way as the villain Emma Corrin has been cast to play. Of course, Hugh Jackman is back as Wolverine in the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to star characters that Marvel Studios couldn’t use before Disney bought 20th Century Fox, namely in the X-Men family. The film also features Morena Baccarin, Stefan Kapičić, Karan Soni, Leslie Uggams, Brianna Hildebrand, Shioli Kutsuna, and Rob Delaney as the aforementioned partygoers, and Lewis Tan as Shatterstar, who was among those killed in the botched X-Force mission of the previous film, but he’s here. Apparently Jennifer Garner will be reprising as Elektra from her film and the preceding Daredevil movie.
Wolverine & Deadpool is directed by Shawn Levy, with Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese writing the script along with The Marvels co-writer Zeb Wells. A previous draft was written by Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin. Being now under Marvel Studios, president Kevin Feige boards as a producer alongside Levy and Reynolds. Despite the dual strikes causing a stoppage in production, and delays from its earliest-on-the-calendar penultimate release date of May 3, 2024, it’s still several weeks earlier than the preceding September 6 and November 8 dates, as the film is set to be released on July 26. By the time this article was ready to embed the trailer, it had already amassed 7.8 million views between Ryan and Marvel’s uploads. Marvel’s 4.4 million was a million more than the former’s count, so it’s going here for you to watch.
