Deadpool 3 Should Have The MCU's Real Wolverine (To End Jackman Feud)
How and when the MCU plans to introduce its version of Wolverine is still a mystery, but Deadpool 3 offers the best option to do it in a way that also acknowledges Hugh Jackman. Of the many challenges the MCU will face to incorporate mutants into an already established universe, a rather complex one is how to replace Hugh Jackman in the role of Wolverine, arguably one of the most iconic versions of a superhero to appear on the big screen. While Jackman had a perfect send-off in Logan, the images of the actor and Wolverine are still very much intertwined in the minds of audiences.
While both the Fantastic Four and the X-Men are now at MCU's disposal following the Fox acquisition by Disney, only the former has had a film confirmed in the MCU. That said, the X-Men-adjacent Deadpool will continue his movie franchise now as part of a larger Marvel universe. Free Guy and The Adam Project director Shawn Levy will team up with Ryan Reynolds once again in what will be MCU's first R-Rated film. Details about the story are still unknown, but the self-aware humor and the fourth-wall-breaking already common in Deadpool movies are to be expected.
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It is also for that reason that Deadpool 3 is the perfect movie for the MCU to introduce its own version of the character. Not only are Deadpool and Wolverine connected by decades of mutant and X-Men stories in comics, Ryan Reynold's first time playing the character was in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Additionally, Reynolds and Jackman have a long-standing friendship and constant «feud», with the Wolverine actor's face even appearing as a joke during the first Deadpool. All of this added to Deadpool's track record of meta-commentary
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