Six years after the success of Logan, Hugh Jackman puts on the costume of the clawed hero again for the new part of the Deadpool saga. This good news was confirmed by the actor himself via his Instagram account. He posted a photo where he can be seen wearing a canary yellow tunic alongside Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds, in his most blazing red latex.
The aesthetics of Wolverine’s costume surprised some netizens. The mutant’s new costume is indeed very similar to that of the original comics from the 1970s, but it had never had the honors of the cinema, except for a cut scene in 2013. The skintight and flashy jumpsuit does not was not to James Mangold’s taste. The director of Logan and Wolverine: The Fight of the Immortal found it too “flashy”. “I kind of feel like if we ever put Hugh in that costume, people wouldn’t be happy. Basically, it’s something that exists on the pages and I’m not sure it can exist elsewhere, ”he explained to the ScreenRant site in 2017.
Apart from this aesthetic choice of the new director Shawn Levy (known, among other things, for the Night at the Museum saga), the information on this new opus of Deadpool is starting to break through. A few days ago, the presence of Jennifer Garner in the casting was announced by the production. The American actress will return in the role of Elektra, twenty years after the little appreciated Daredevil with Ben Affleck.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film should take up the concept of the multiverse, a central concept in the Marvel universe, already exploited in various Marvel films and a sign of convergence between the productions of the various studios which exploit the world of superheroes. Deadpool and Wolverine, formerly produced by 20th Century Fox, find themselves in this third installment under the supervision of Marvel Studios, therefore Disney. Release scheduled for November 8, 2024.