Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine: Everything We Know So Far

Deadpool and Wolverine are coming together. Marvel Studios kicked off Deadpool's (suggestive) marketing with the first Deadpool & Wolverine trailer and poster, offering the first footage of frenemies Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and Logan (Hugh Jackman) during Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday. After starring together in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine — but like the sewn-shut mouth of Reynolds' proto-Deadpool "Weapon XI," the less said about that, the better — Reynolds and Jackman are getting their superhero happy ending in Deadpool 3. 

From the Deadpool & Wolverine cast and crew to plot details, here's everything to know about the third film in the Deadpool trilogy.

Does Deadpool 3 Have a Title?

After going by Untitled Deadpool Sequel — once believed to be the actual Deadpool 3 title — the Super Bowl trailer confirmed the official moniker with a title reveal: Deadpool & Wolverine. 

Who Plays Wolverine in Deadpool 3?

Hugh Jackman — who debuted as the adamantium-clawed mutant in 2000's X-Men — is returning as Wolverine, and he's wearing his classic comic book costume for the first time. Jackman appeared in nine X-Men movies between 2000 and 2017 until he retired the Wolverine role in Logan.

"There's not a morning I don't wake up where Ryan Reynolds is outside my house with posters saying, 'Please.' He was constantly asking me about it," Jackman explained in a 2022 interview. "And I was like, 'Dude, I'm done. I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.' So then when he rang me, he was like, 'Are you serious?' So yeah. I'm a terrible poker player. All this time I was saying I was done, I really meant it. But anyway, somewhere deep down, this idea was obviously lurking and brewing."

Deadpool & Wolverine Cast

Along with Reynolds and Jackman, the cast includes returning Deadpool stars Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Wade's fiancée; Brianna Hildebrand and Shioli Kutsuna as Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio of the X-Men; Stefan Kapičić as the metal-skinned X-Man Colossus; Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Wade's roommate; Karan Soni as cabbie Dopinder; and Rob Delaney as the unpowered Peter, who auditioned for X-Force in Deadpool 2. Aaron Stanford reprises his role from 2003's X2: X-Men United and 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand as the fire-manipulating mutant Pyro, and dog actor Peggy plays Dogpool.

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) is playing TVA Agent Paradox, who brings Wade into the timeline-controlling Time Variance Authority. Emma Corrin (The Crown) is cast in an undisclosed role suspected to be Cassandra Nova, the villainous twin sister of Professor Charles Xavier.

Who's Directing Deadpool & Wolverine?

Deadpool and Wolverine aren't the only newcomers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Shawn Levy — who directed Reynolds in Free Guy and The Adam Project, and Jackman in Real Steel — takes over directorial duties from Tim Miller (2016's Deadpool) and David Leitch (2018's Deadpool 2). 

Reynolds and Levy serve as producers alongside Lauren Shuler Donner (the X-Men movies) and Kevin Feige and Louis D'Esposito for Marvel Studios. Wendy Jacobson (Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law), Mary McLaglen (Free Guy), Rhett Reese (Deadpool), Paul Wernick (Deadpool 2), George Dewey (Welcome to Wrexham), Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past), and Jonathon Komack Martin (R.I.P.D.) are also on board as executive producers.

Who Wrote Deadpool & Wolverine?

Deadpool & Wolverine is co-written by Reynolds & Reese & Wernick, who collaborated on the original Deadpool and Deadpool 2, & Zeb Wells (Robot Chicken, The Marvels) & Levy.

Deadpool 3 Plot: What Is Deadpool & Wolverine About?

Plot details remain under wraps, but the trailer shows the TVA arresting Wade Wilson for meddling with the X-Men timelines and bringing him to the Time Variance Authority: an organization tasked with protecting the Sacred Timeline in Marvel's Loki. "Wade, you are special," Paradox tells the toupeed ex-mercenary Wade, plucking him from his sales job. "This is your chance to be a hero among heroes." Superheroes like Iron Man and Captain America of the Avengers. 

"Your little cinematic universe is about to change forever," says the fourth wall-breaking — and, apparently, multiverse-breaking — Deadpool, who is so special that he's the self-professed "Messiah" and the "Marvel Jesus" of the MCU. Why Paradox recruits Wade is to be revealed, but the mission brings Deadpool to the Void... where he encounters a berserker Wolverine. 

Deadpool & Wolverine Rating

If the F-bomb and bloody violence in the red band Deadpool & Wolverine trailer wasn't proof enough, director Shawn Levy confirmed that Deadpool 3 will be rated R like the first two films. (The film is not yet officially rated.) 

"Not only have Kevin Feige and Marvel and Disney supported this extremely Deadpool-ian, audacious, R-rated tone, they've also supported our super meta, self-referential self-awareness," Levy told Wired of the first R-rated Marvel Studios movie. "Some of the jokes are dirty, some of them are cultural observations, but that's what we love about Deadpool, that he knows he's in a movie, even though the stakes are real. Our movie is very loyal to that DNA too, with tremendous Marvel and Disney support, in making fun of and being self-aware about everything, including themselves." That includes meta jokes about the former Fox properties now under the Disney-Marvel banner. 

Deadpool & Wolverine Release Date

Marvel Studios' Deadpool & Wolverine opens only in theaters July 26.

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