Deadpool 3’s Wolverine Is, Somehow, Completely New
Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is returning to the big screen next year, but according to Deadpool himself, it won’t be the character fans know and love.
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Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is returning to the big screen next year, but according to Deadpool himself, it won’t be the character fans know and love.
As a performer, Hugh Jackman has an extensive on-stage and cinematic resume dating back decades. Though, despite such a laundry list of credits per IMDb, Jackman might be best known for his role as Marvel’s Wolverine in the “X-Men” film series. Seeing as how Wolverine (aka James Howlett/Logan/Weapon X) is a jacked mutant with regenerative powers, vicious claws…
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It feels like a billion years away, but Deadpool 3 is getting on track for its November 8, 2024 release. Hugh Jackman is preparing physically to play Wolverine again, he and Ryan Reynolds are riffing on social media, and the delicate balance of having two giant comic book superstars with radically different tones…
Not many actors have played one character for as long as, or in as many films as Hugh Jackman played Wolverine, but Daniel Radcliffe isn’t far off with over a decade of Harry Potter films under his belt. The 33-year-old ex-wizard isn’t too keen to jump into a role that the previous actor has now occupied for over twice as long, Variety reports.
According to Radcliffe, the Wolverine rumor that has circled around him for quite a while is “purely a press tour rumor.”
“I say something, and then occasionally I get bored of answering that way, so I say something different, and that sets it off again,” Radcliffe said about the Wolverine rumor. “I should just never open my mouth.”
You know the worst thing about Wolverine in cinema? He isn’t allowed to be horrible. Like, really horrible. The spit-and-polish Jackman got in his various silver screen adaptations wipe all the gore and viscera off those lovely adamantium claws, leaving us with a refined, glistening of everyone’s favorite Canadian mutant. There’s no abhorrent violence, no running people through, no wanton beheading – just to make a point (except in Logan, which is why it’s the best film). For the most part, the Wolverine we get in Hollywood is usually very different to the one we get in the comics.
Luckily, we have video games. For all its flaws, 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine didn’t care about the squeaky-clean image the films were trying to manicure. It let Wolverine off his leash, uncollared him, and let him run rampant through the scattered forces of Col. Stryker’s disbanded Team X.
Taking inspiration (apparently) from the likes of Devil May Cry and God of War, the game is effectively a series of rooms with people in that you could butcher. That’s it. Yes, it was repetitive, and yes, it was braindead – but hey; that’s what pulpy games are for, right? At least it was leagues ahead of, say, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. There’s an element of ‘guilty pleasure’ to it – booting up the game to rinse/repeat the same fight in a slightly different room, again. But hearing Hugh Jackman’s specifically-recorded voice lines, listening to that satisfying snikt as combat ramps up and your claws come flying out, and lunging at an enemy before rending them limb-from-limb? No other game has come close to capturing that Wolverine dream quite so perfectly.
Hugh Jackman is rebinding his skeleton with adamantium and returning as Wolverine in Deadpool 3. After all, if you’re the best there is at what you do, why stop doing it?
Deadpool actor and superfan Ryan Reynolds has tweeted out a video not only announcing a Sept. 6, 2024 release date for the third film in the offbeat Marvel superhero series, but also revealing that Jackman has joined the project to reprise his role as Canada’s angriest little weeb.
“Hard keeping my mouth sewn shut about this one,” wrote Reynolds, referencing Deadpool’s unfortunate venture into body horror in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In the accompanying video, he plays it pretty straight until a special guest wanders into the background.
Jackman’s last outing as Wolverine was the critically acclaimed Logan in 2017, which took a decidedly melancholy look at the end of a superhero’s bloody career. It’s been even longer since Jackman’s James Howlett and Reynolds’ Wade Wilson have shared the screen, appearing together only once in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
The reunion of these two stab-happy Canadian superheroes isn’t the only significant milestone that Deadpool 3 will achieve. The film will mark the Merc with a Mouth’s official admission to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after Marvel’s parent company Disney acquired Deadpool‘s production company 21st Century Fox in 2019.
As such, Jackman’s return means Deadpool 3 will now also be Wolverine’s introduction to the world of Thor and Thanos. I’d also rescind my retirement if it meant I got to be part of the MCU. Considering how much Marvel’s recent films have been playing with alternate universes, it won’t be surprising if the existing characters are woven into the MCU’s mythos in their entirety.
Of course, no details are yet forthcoming about exactly how big of a role Jackman will play in Deadpool 3. For all we know, he could just pop in for 10 seconds during Marvel’s signature after-credits gag. Though considering Marvel tends to like to keep those bits a surprise, there’s a good chance everyone’s favourite tiny hairy man will be featured during the film proper.
Deadpool 3 is currently scheduled for release Sept. 6, 2024.