In next year's Deadpool 3, Ryan Reynolds' Merc with the Mouth and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine will finally share the screen. While we did see the two characters interact in the ill-fated X-Men Origins: Wolverine, that wasn't exactly the Deadpool fans had spent years waiting to see stand side-by-side with Logan.
It's thought the two unlikely allies will head on a trip through the Multiverse, tying into Marvel Studios' Multiverse Saga and potentially leaving them both stranded in the MCU in time for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
We'd thought Jackman's tenure as Wolverine had ended in 2017's Logan (which was directed by James Mangold), but no superhero ever stays dead and the events of Deadpool 3 are expected to take place prior to the events of that tear-jerking adventure.
Talking to Inverse, Mangold revealed that talks of a meeting between Wolverine and Deadpool actually began while he and Jackman were making Logan.
"I've made a bunch of movies with Hugh Jackman now," the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director recalls. "We're good friends and we talked a lot. And one of the things we talked about a lot, even while we were making Logan, was the idea of how joyful a kind of Midnight Run or 48 Hrs. with Deadpool and Logan would be. So I completely understand those guys chasing that idea."
Seeing as Deadpool 2 would have been in production around the same time as Logan, we're guessing it was then that Reynolds started bugging Jackman about a meet-up in a third instalment.
The movies Mangold mentions are both action comedies which saw their respective leads forced to work together despite not liking each other. Needless to say, we expect that to be the case in Deadpool 3 as well.
As for how he feels about the upcoming threequel, Mangold added, "I never was under any illusion that there wouldn't be a new movie, even with potentially a new Wolverine, coming out in the not-too-distant future."
"With properties like this, I just view them as opportunities to make my version. For me, Logan was just my ideal version of a kind of Logan story."
Deadpool 3 is set to be released in theaters on May 3, 2024.