Deadpool star and serial entrepreneur Ryan Reynolds recently explained what working on his first MCU film has been like, including how Hugh Jackman was brought back and what it takes to circle around Marvel Studios' big elephant in the room, the X-Men.

Initially planned for release on September 6, 2024, Deadpool 3 was affected by a wave of delays from Marvel Studios that pushed the film to November 8 of that same year. Nevertheless, Deadpool 3 remains one of the most exciting movies in Marvel Studios' slate for Phases Five and Six, largely thanks to Jackman's return as Wolverine, a choice that funnily wasn’t Reynolds' idea.

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In an interview with Collider, Reynolds reminisced on his first meeting with Kevin Feige and why Wolverine wasn’t a possibility three years ago until Jackman himself came calling about the possibility. “Hugh just happened to call at that perfect moment and express that he'd be interested in coming back and doing this one more time,” Reynolds said, with him then convincing the Marvel Studios boss to buy into it. Reynolds is honest about a Wolverine not being any kind of hard sell to Feige, yet he mentioned there was “a lot of red tape in order to make that happen” due to the studio's own secretive plans for the X-Men further down the line.

The actor was also asked if Deadpool 3 would start shooting around its rumored date of April next year, but Reynolds was quite honest to admit he really doesn’t know because start dates for filming tend to be negotiable. In other media appearances as of late, Reynolds has said that Deadpool 3 should ideally begin filming before summer starts, even if he’s fully aware that nailing down the script and pre-production duties is a more difficult task in his opinion.

The extract from the interview will only confirm what fans have seen happen in Phase Four, that being Marvel Studios handling the X-Men with the utmost care, barely throwing small hints of what mutants are in Ms. Marvel and now with Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Besides Wolverine, Deadpool 3 could be the perfect occasion to see more of his kind enter the MCU, such as Cable or Colossus, but do count on the mouthy mercenary to have plenty of fun joking about the subject, much like She-Hulk did.

This interview makes it obvious Jackman is very excited to play Wolverine once more, and just like Reynolds said, he'll probably elaborate more on why that was the case in the near future. In the meantime, the X-Men are far from the only comic book frenemies Deadpool can invite over to his MCU debut.

Deadpool 3 is scheduled to release in theaters on November 8, 2024.

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Source: Collider