Wolverine joins the “merc with a mouth” in the third installment of the Deadpool film franchise

Deadpool-A wisecracking mercenary with accelerated healing and Wolverine-A mutant with healing abilities, retractable claws, and an adamantium-infused skeleton.Wolverine joins the “merc with a mouth” in the third installment of the Deadpool film franchise.

Details

• Release date
  • July 26, 2024 (United States)
• Country of origin
  • United States
• Language
  • English
• Also known as
  • Tidal Wave
• Filming locations
  • London, England, UK
• Production companies
  • Marvel Studios
  • 20th Century Studios
  • 21 Laps Entertainment

The untitled Deadpool film,[1] commonly known as Deadpool 3, is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Deadpool, produced by Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is intended to be the 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and a sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018). The film is being directed by Shawn Levy from a script by the writing team of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick as well as Zeb Wells, Ryan Reynolds, and Levy. Reynolds stars as Wade Wilson / Deadpool alongside Hugh Jackman, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, and Jennifer Garner.

Development on a third Deadpool film began at 20th Century Fox by November 2016, but was placed on hold after the studio was acquired by Disney in March 2019. Control of the character was transferred to Marvel Studios, which began developing a new film with Reynolds. It integrates Deadpool with the MCU and is expected to retain the R-rating of the previous films, the first MCU film to have such a rating. Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin joined in November 2020 as writers. Reese and Wernick returned from the previous films for rewrites by March 2022, when Levy was hired as director and to produce with Reynolds. Jackman decided to reprise his role as Wolverine from the X-Men films in August 2022, followed by additional casting in early 2023, when Wells, Reynolds, and Levy were revealed as additional writers. Filming began that May in London and at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, with additional filming in Norfolk. It was suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and resumed in late November following the strike’s conclusion.

Deadpool 3 is scheduled to be released in the United States on July 26, 2024, as part of Phase Five of the MCU.