The multiversal meta-comedy Deadpool and Wolverine is the MCU's lone theatrical film for 2024, so there's clearly a lot riding on this tentpole release.
Here's what you need to know before seeing the team-up of titans.
Filming on Deadpool and Wolverine was paused during the SAG-AFTRA strike of 2023, but after the actors and studios finally worked things out, director Shawn Levy and star Ryan Reynolds were able to put the finishing touches on the third "Deadpool" film in time for a 2024 release.
Specifically, Wade Wilson will return on July 26, 2024, taking the spot previously held by Captain America Brave New World, which has been moved to February 2025. The superhero behemoth has been releasing two or three films per year for over a decade now.
The last time the studio released a single film in a calendar year was in 2012 with "The Avengers."
So the big question is whether Wade Wilson can save the struggling cinematic universe and give Marvel its next massive hit.
At one point in time, the plot of a third possible "Deadpool" would have basically been Wolverine and Wade Wilson hitting the open road.
In July 2021, after the MCU's "Deadpool 3" was made official but before Hugh Jackman's involvement was announced, Ryan Reynolds tweeted, "Before Disney bought Fox, 'Deadpool 3' was going to be a road trip between Deadpool and Logan, Rashomon-style, for real."
With the reference to director Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, we're assuming the movie that never was would have focused on different versions of the road trip told from Deadpool and Wolverine's perspectives, with neither one remembering the journey the same way.
The upcoming "Deadpool and Wolverine" will focus less on road trips and more on multiversal mayhem.
