DEADPOOL
& WOLVERINE

FROM FOX TO MARVEL STUDIOS

HOW THE FILM REACHED THE SCREEN

Development on a third Deadpool film began at 20th Century Fox by November 2016, and the project moved to Marvel Studios when Disney acquired Fox in March 2019. Shawn Levy was revealed to be directing in March 2022. The team felt they lacked an original story until Reynolds realised that including Wolverine would solve many of the issues, and Reynolds announced Jackman’s return in September 2022.

Principal photography began on 22 May 2023 in London and at Pinewood Studios under the working title Tidal Wave, was suspended on 14 July 2023 because of the SAG-AFTRA strike, resumed by 23 November and wrapped on 24 January 2024. Rob Simonsen composed the score, and NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” plays over the opening credits. Reported budget figures vary widely, from an initial $200 million report to a net $429 million.

“the most Deadpool movie in the history of Deadpool.”

Ryan Reynolds

TWO LEADS AND A LOT OF GUESTS

WHO IS IN THE CAST

Ryan Reynolds plays Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman plays Logan, with Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova, Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Paradox, Rob Delaney as Peter, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Karan Soni as Dopinder and Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Dafne Keen, Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Channing Tatum, Chris Evans and Henry Cavill also appear, and Keen denied involvement before Marvel revealed her role.

THE BIGGEST R-RATED OPENING EVER

HOW THE FILM WAS RELEASED AND WHAT IT EARNED

The film premiered at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City on 22 July 2024 and opened in the US on 26 July, after moving from September 2024 to November, May and finally July. The Motion Picture Association gave it an R rating, a first for the MCU. It opened to $211,435,291 in the US and went on to earn $636,745,858 there and $1,338,073,645 worldwide.

The opening was the biggest for an R-rated film and the biggest of 2024, and the film became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time in 23 days. A post-credits scene has Chris Evans delivering a monologue, with a shot of Channing Tatum’s Gambit on screens in the background.

THE REWATCH

A 77% CRITICS SCORE AND AN A FROM AUDIENCES

Rotten Tomatoes lists a 77% critics’ score from 421 reviews and a 94% audience score, and its consensus calls the film “an irreverent romp with a surprising soft spot for a bygone era of superhero movies.” Metacritic gives it 56 from 58 critics and a user score of 7.9, and audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an A. Pete Hammond of Deadline said the team-up “works beyond your wildest screen-team dreams,” while Jordan Hoffman of Entertainment Weekly called it “too repetitive, too immature, and too irritating to enjoy.”

The film was nominated for the Golden Globe for cinematic and box office achievement, won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for best comedy in a tie, and won Saturn Awards for best action or adventure film and for Hugh Jackman as supporting actor.

In the Marvel Marathon it sits in the MCU release order guide between Echo and Agatha All Along, and in the MCU movies in order guide between The Marvels and Captain America: Brave New World. In the Marvel movies in release order guide it sits between Madame Web and Venom: The Last Dance. It follows The New Mutants in the X-Men movies in order guide, and in the MCU timeline guide it comes between Hawkeye and Moon Knight.