Deadpool 3 may or may not meet its planned May 2024 release date, though it's almost certainly going to move if the SAG-AFTRA strike doesn't end this month.
Marvel Studios has already begun the post-production process for scenes filmmaker Shawn Levy has shot, while we're guessing the script is being worked on as we speak to account for any possible reshoots which will need to take place once filming resumes.
Wired recently caught up with Levy and asked where things stand with the movie. After expressing his hope that the strike gets a "legitimately fair, equitable resolution soon," the filmmaker adds, "Within weeks of the strikes ending we will be back in the United Kingdom shooting the second half of Deadpool."
The site pushed Levy to divulge spoilers, though he knows better than that. However, the director would say there's a lot of "misinformation" online about Deadpool 3's cameos, "including the Taylor Swift cameo that this interview neither confirms nor denies."
Ultimately, it sounds like Levy's priority was to bring the Merc with the Mouth into the MCU while finding the correct balance between his R-Rated antics and being part of a much larger world.
"I’ll simply say the whole challenge and North Star priority on this movie was to embrace and take advantage of membership in the MCU without sacrificing or abandoning the raw, gritty, grounded DNA of Deadpool. It’s very much still the Deadpool we all love, but with many new opportunities."
"Not only have Kevin Feige and Marvel and Disney supported this extremely Deadpool-ian, audacious, R-rated tone, they’ve also supported our super meta, self-referential self-awareness," he continues. "Some of the jokes are dirty, some of them are cultural observations, but that’s what we love about Deadpool, that he knows he’s in a movie, even though the stakes are real."
"Our movie is very loyal to that DNA too, with tremendous Marvel and Disney support, in making fun of and being self-aware about everything, including themselves."
After a so-so couple of years for Marvel Studios, it sounds like Deadpool 3 will be the movie that puts the MCU back on the right track.
Alongside Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, Deadpool franchise vets Karan Soni (Dopinder), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa), Stefan Kapicic (Colossus), Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), Shioli Kutsuna (Yukio), and Rob Delaney (Peter) are all set to return in this threequel.
Emma Corrin is expected to play Cassandra Nova, while Matthew Macfadyen will likely take on the role of a TVA agent named Paradox. It's also been confirmed that Jennifer Garner will reprise her role as Elektra, with Liev Schreiber, James Marsden, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and even Loki's Owen Wilson expected to appear.
Deadpool 3 is set to be released in theaters on May 3, 2024. Well, for the time being, at least.