Ryan Reynolds pursued the Australian actor for years to play Wolverine in a movie. Deadpoolwhat no one expected was that he would finally accept.
Few Marvel announcements have been celebrated as much as that confirmation that Hugh Jackman would be Wolverine again in Deadpool 3. Nobody expected that, after years since his farewell to the role in loganhe actor Australian gave in to Ryan Reynolds’ offensive.
So much so that neither Kevin Feige, nor Ryan Reynolds nor Shawn Levy expected this return to occur, so the different approaches they used to Deadpool 3 They were very different from what we will see in Deadpool and Wolverine.
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The director himself, Shawn Levywho has worked with Ryan Reynolds in films such as Free Guy either The Adam Projecthas shared with Entertainment Weekly the pleasant surprise that came with the confirmation that they would have Hugh Jackman in the movie.
Such was the joy that they discarded the entire creative process they were carrying out, to focus on what will have Deadpool and Wolverinethey didn’t care at all.
How would it have been Deadpool and Wolverine without Hugh Jackman?
The director highlights in the article how they studied different options to develop the third Deadpool movie, but a call from Jackman to Ryan Reynolds would change everything.
“Everything changed radically the day Hugh called Ryan. We had been working on a lot of ideas about possible stories for a third Deadpool movie.
They were story ideas that were more sequels to the first two films, but none of them imagined such a seismic shift. I can safely say that the story changed completely and in fact came to us very quickly from that day“.
That a story flows easily is a great sign for its creators, and the fact that Deadpool and Wolverine advance with that solvency since Hugh Jackman gave the “yes I want” to Ryan Reynolds to return to being Wolverine, it’s promising.
Of course, there is not much to theorize about what we can expect from Deadpool and Wolverinebecause the two trailers of the marvel movie They are firm declarations of intent that they want to break the mold of the UCM.
