According toDeadpoolstar Ryan Reynolds, the original plan forDeadpool 3was to do a “road trip” style movie following Deadpool and Wolverine. On Twitter, Reynolds sought to draw attention to the #BellLetsTalk hashtag to help promote mental health awareness. In an apparent effort to help the tweet gain more traction, Reynolds also casually revealed the originalDeadpool 3concept before Disney acquired Fox to take the merc with a mouth in another direction.
Reynolds' tweet reads, “It’s critical to have open, honest and healthy discussions around mental health. By retweeting #BellLetsTalk you may make a difference. In case that’s not enough, before Disney bought Fox,Deadpool 3was gonna be a road trip between Deadpool andLogan.Rashomonstyle. For real.”
For those unfamiliar,Rashomonrefers to the classic Japanese story that influenced the 1950 movieRashomonby Akira Kurosawa. In the original tale, a servant and an old woman both recall the same story of a confrontation between them, but each recalls the sequence of events in a different way that makes them out to be the hero. We can only imagine how Logan would see Deadpool from his POV, and vice versa.
It’s not known just how far along this particular idea had progressed, or if this was the screenplay that Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick said they were working on in the years afterDeadpool 2was released. Because Jackman had retired from playing the role of Wolverine afterLoganin 2017, it would have also taken some convincing fromRyan Reynoldsto get him to step back into the part one last time forDeadpool 3. It’s unclear if Jackman had relented before Disney’s Fox acquisition shelved the concept entirely.
AfterDeadpool 3moved its production to Marvel Studios, Reese and Wernick departed the project with Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin writing the new script. This month, Marvel boss Kevin Feige also confirmed that the plan is for the movie to retain an R rating like the first twoDeadpoolmovies. He also said that the movie will be set in theMarvel Cinematic Universe, which opens the door for plenty of other exciting creative possibilities, even if it means the Logan “road trip” movie gets left behind.
TheX-Menfranchise will also be rebooted entirely now that the mutant superhero team is in the hands of Disney. Feige has teased the introduction of theX-Menin the MCU at some point in the future, though there’s no word yet on when this might possibly happen. As of now, there are no plans to make anyX-Menmovies, but that’s not to say the characters can’t show up in another MCU movie first. In a recent interview, Feige noted that the role of the new Logan still hadn’t yet been cast.
Whatever happens inDeadpool 3, we won’t exactly be seeing it anytime soon. With so many other Marvel productions already on the board, filming onDeadpool 3won’t begin filming until 2022 at the earliest. A release date hasn’t yet been set by Marvel Studios. This news comes to us fromRyan Reynolds on Twitter.
