The vast majority of details surrounding Deadpool 3 remain a tightly shrouded mystery, but that hasn't stopped fans of the franchise from letting their imaginations run as wild as the multiverse.
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00:00 The vast majority of details surrounding Deadpool 3 remain a tightly shrouded mystery, but that
00:05 hasn't stopped fans of the franchise from letting their imaginations run as wild as
00:09 the multiverse.
00:10 In a time of great turmoil for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, who better to come strolling
00:16 in than the Merc with a mouth himself?
00:18 The big-screen iteration of Deadpool, fronted by actor Ryan Reynolds, thrives on upending
00:23 expectations for the superhero genre.
00:26 The perfect example occurs in Deadpool 2, when a version of the mutant squad X-Force
00:31 gets introduced just for the majority of its members to be immediately killed off in a
00:35 comically violent fashion.
00:37 A little chaos along those lines would surely do the MCU good at this juncture, allowing
00:42 it to shake off its recent woes and work towards a better tomorrow.
00:46 You're gonna help me get her back.
00:47 For that to happen, however, Marvel Studios should probably do a little housecleaning
00:52 first.
00:53 Enter Deadpool 3, the long-awaited threequel that's gotten fans hyped ever since it was
00:58 confirmed to bring Reynolds' Wade Wilson into the MCU.
01:02 Eyebrows only rose higher at the news that the upcoming film would be the first from
01:06 a Disney-owned franchise to retain an R rating.
01:09 Curiosity also grew when it came out that the film would revive Hugh Jackman's growling
01:14 Wolverine for a reunion with his X-Men Origins Wolverine co-star.
01:18 With director Sean Levy preferring to shoot on location rather than the typical green
01:22 screen sets used for MCU productions, it has been harder than usual for Marvel's highly-trained
01:28 photographic snipers to do their job and prevent a parade of intriguing set photos from leaking
01:33 online.
01:34 "Films extra."
01:36 Even so, the little information and imagery that has leaked about Deadpool 3 has gotten
01:40 many Deadpool fans theorizing, so it's time to recklessly speculate about everything we
01:45 think we know about the long-awaited threequel.
01:48 Before Disney bought most of Fox in 2019, Logan director James Mangold talked to Reynolds
01:54 and Jackman about the duo making what Mangold described as, quote, "a buddy picture."
01:59 The pitch featured Deadpool and Wolverine on a road trip that mixes gritty thrills with
02:04 broad comedy in the style of Martin Brest's 1988 hit "Midnight Run."
02:09 Even with the film having since become part of the MCU, it appears Deadpool 3 will retain
02:14 at least some part of that initial concept.
02:16 In 2021, Reynolds claimed that the film was originally intended to be a Rashomon-style
02:22 story about Wade and Logan hitting the road.
02:25 This term is a reference to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, which depicts characters
02:30 giving conflicting accounts of the same crime.
02:33 Framing a story like this wouldn't be a huge departure for the franchise, as the first
02:38 Deadpool movie had a non-linear narrative structure for much of its runtime, flashing
02:42 back to Wade's past while he casually waited to beat up his enemies on an expressway.
02:47 In fact, a Rashomon-style narrative could be a great way to incorporate the multiverse
02:51 into the story.
02:53 In a similar way to how Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness introduced and quickly
02:57 killed off the Illuminati, a group of alternate-universe versions of Marvel characters, it's conceivable
03:03 that Deadpool 3 is planning to lay waste to another group of variants.
03:08 However, instead of casting fan-pick John Krasinski as Reed Richards and bringing back
03:12 Patrick Stewart in his beloved role as Charles Xavier, the threequel would likely take the
03:17 joke a step further, resurrecting characters from not-so-treasured Fox Marvel movies.
03:23 One possibility could be Jennifer Garner's Elektra, who's already rumored to appear in
03:27 the film.
03:28 A storyline in which Deadpool and Wolverine have to traverse the multiverse to clean up
03:32 its history not only sounds like an appropriately meta plot for the third Deadpool film, it
03:37 also has a precedent in Marvel's comic books thanks to Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe.
03:43 This would further explain the Rashomon comparison, as Wade and Logan could encounter different
03:47 variants of the characters they previously knew along the way.
03:51 Leaked set photos have already shown the duo encountering a deteriorating version of 20th
03:56 Century Fox's logo, which only seems to lend additional credence to this theory.
04:01 For that matter, Deadpool 2 even ended with Wade hopping through time, killing Reynolds
04:06 himself before he could star in 2011's much-derided Green Lantern and shooting Weapon 11 from
04:12 X-Men Origins' Wolverine.
04:14 Should Deadpool 3 go this route, it would be a logical expansion of the same concept.
04:21 Running around through time killing people isn't exactly what heroes are known for, and
04:25 while that does sound like something the trigger-happy Deadpool would do, it's unlikely he and Wolverine
04:30 could do this without consequence.
04:32 Luckily, Marvel canon already has an organization dedicated to maintaining some semblance of
04:37 order across the multiverse in the form of the Time Variance Authority from Loki.
04:42 We wouldn't be surprised if they had something to say about Wade Wilson and Wolverine skipping
04:46 merrily about and committing murder from timeline to timeline.
04:50 Depending on where in the Marvel timeline Deadpool 3 takes place, it's possible Wade
04:54 and Logan could end up being pruned by TVA agents and end up in the Void at the end of
05:00 time.
05:01 "Great, so how do we escape?"
05:02 Since artifacts like the ice cream truck from Moon Knight and Red Skull's roadster from
05:06 Captain America, the first Avenger, have both been spotted on Deadpool 3's set already,
05:12 the Void would be the perfect setting for the protagonists to find them.
05:16 While those are most of the major theories circulating about the movie, there is another
05:20 minor one that might get some fans even more excited.
05:23 Rumor has it, Reynolds' real-life buddy Taylor Swift will cameo opposite her fellow antiheroes
05:29 in Deadpool 3 as Dazzler, the musically inclined mutant the pop music superstar was once rumored
05:35 to portray in 2016's X-Men Apocalypse.
05:39 Levy refrained from ruling the idea out in a recent interview with ScreenRant, although
05:43 he certainly didn't confirm anything, either.
05:45 Still, in a film as increasingly wild-sounding as Deadpool 3, fans shouldn't discount anything
05:51 from the realm of possibility before it hits theaters on July 26, 2024.
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