Summary
- Deadpool & Wolverine almost had Oscar-winning director Jordan Peele on board for a role in the MCU movie.
- Ryan Reynolds expressed a strong desire to collaborate with Peele, admiring his work as an actor and director.
- Despite Peele's busy schedule, Reynolds still hopes to team up with him in the future for a project.
Deadpool & Wolverine was very close to recruiting a major Oscar-winning director for the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie.
In a new interview with Screen Rant for the upcoming release of Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman were asked if there were any MCU characters they would love to work with in Avengers: Secret Wars if they end up being part of it. While revealing how much he wants to work with him,
Reynolds opened up on how they had offered a role to actor and director Jordan Peele in Deadpool & Wolverine, though couldn't make it work due to his busy schedule. See what Reynolds shared below:
Ryan Reynolds: I have one - he couldn't do it, one of the first people that were offered a role we were trying to work with desperately was Jordan Peele. But we are such enormous fans of his, everything he does, I think he's just one of the great underrated performers as well. Obviously, he's busy building a gigantic empire as a director and creator, but he's somebody that I still, to this day, would love to find some way to team up with. I don't even care what he would play, but I would love to work with him.
Deadpool & Wolverine is set to release on July 26.
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Deadpool & Wolverine R Action Sci-FiComedySuperhero A follow-up to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 films starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
Director Shawn Levy
Release Date July 26, 2024
Studio(s) Marvel , Maximum Effort
Distributor(s) Disney
Writers Rhett Reese , Paul Wernick , Shawn Levy , Ryan Reynolds , Zeb Wells , Rob Liefeld , Fabian Nicieza
Cast Ryan Reynolds , Hugh Jackman , Emma Corrin , Morena Baccarin , Rob Delaney , Leslie Uggams , Karan Soni , Matthew Macfadyen , Brianna Hildebrand , Shioli Kutsuna , Stefan Kapicic , Lewis Tan , Randal Reeder , Jennifer Garner , Aaron Stanford , Billy Clements , Ollie Palmer , Chris Hemsworth , Rob McElhenney
Character(s) Deadpool , Wolverine , Cassandra Nova , Vanessa Carlysle , Peter , Blind Al , Dopinder , Mr. Paradox , Negasonic Teenage Warhead , Pinkie Pie , Colossus , Shatterstar , Buck , Elektra Natchios , Pyro , Russian , Bar Patron , Thor , TVA Minuteman
Runtime 127 Minutes
Franchise(s) Deadpool , Marvel Cinematic Universe
prequel(s) Deadpool , Deadpool 2
Main Genre Action Expand
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