Expected blockbuster forged a ‘creative brotherhood’ between director and its 2 stars
As if he had a time machine straight out of a Marvel film, Hugh Jackman foresaw the friendship between Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds years before they ever met.
He says Reynolds handpicked Levy to direct and co-write “Deadpool & Wolverine” — the third movie in his hit Deadpool franchise and the first from Marvel Studios after its parent company Disney acquired 20th Century Fox. It’s out Friday. Evidently, they love to play hard too. Levy says he, Reynolds and Jackman are close friends in real life, and the press tour for “Deadpool & Wolverine” “has basically been like a boy’s trip paid for by Disney.”
Set a few years after 2018’s “Deadpool 2,” the titular Canadian anti-superhero is down on his luck, fresh off bombing a job interview with the Avengers and being dumped by his girlfriend. But when he’s tapped by interdimensional agency the Time Variance Authority, led by Matthew Macfadyen’s smarmy Mr. Paradox, to mercy kill his own withering universe within the multiverse, he refuses and recruits an especially cranky iteration of fellow Canuck Wolverine to save the day.
“The three of us have so much trust and affection and we spend a lot of time together off screen,” he says. Levy’s answer to the discourse surrounding the movie is to address it head-on via Deadpool’s many fourth wall-shattering asides. Early on, the merc quips to Wolverine: “Welcome to the MCU. You’re joining at a bit of a low point.”“Obviously, they’ve had a few stumbles and misses lately, and because it’s Deadpool, we get to name that. We get to poke fun at that. And to Marvel’s credit, they let us make fun of them because they know that that’s the Deadpool spirit.
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