Hold Onto Your Chimichangas: Marvel Is Officially Working On A New Deadpool Movie

By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 11 seconds ago

Once upon a time, it seemed impossible that we’d ever get a Deadpool movie. And we probably never would have if Ryan Reynolds hadn’t leaked test footage online, causing such a massive fan response that 20th Century Fox had no choice but to greenlight that first film. After they made one sequel, Disney bought Fox, and we got the crowdpleasing team-up Deadpool & Wolverine. At that point, the Merc With a Mouth was officially part of the MCU. This led fans to frantically speculate about when we’d get another movie featuring the raunchiest superhero ever made.

Historically, Reynolds has played coy with such questions, indicating that he wants plenty of space between Deadpool movies and that he thinks the character would work better in an ensemble than a solo film. It was therefore all the more shocking to hear the actor casually confirm over the weekend that Marvel Studios is working on a new Deadpool movie. That’s the good news for fans: we’ll be getting another solo movie featuring this popular character, probably sooner than anyone imagines. The bad news? Beyond the fact that the studio is working on it, there are basically zero details about this new movie.

The Merc With A Mouth Has Plenty More To Say

This information comes to us from Ryan Reynolds. Over the weekend, he was attending Fanatics Fest and dishing with his fans about all things Deadpool. He started talking about things from the character’s publication history that he would like to see in a future film. “There’s a few really deep cuts that I think are missing behind the movies. I think there’s a few deep cuts missing from some of the comics,” he said. “There’s certainly some stuff that, you know, I love that Fabian Nicieza wrote that is incredible. Gerry Duggan, who was a friend, was an incredible comic writer.” Nicieza co-created Deadpool, and Duggan was the writer for the 2013 Deadpool series.

For those in attendance, this initially seemed like nothing more than the actor’s wishlist of things he’d like to see in some hypothetical, future sequel. However, he ended his thoughts with a quiet bombshell of an announcement: “There’s stuff upcoming. There’s eventually, you know, remotely another Deadpool film. It’s going to be great.” Upon this announcement, The Hollywood Reporter reached out to their sources close to Marvel Studios. Those sources confirmed that the movie is in very early development and that no writer or director is currently attached to the project. It’s possible the movie will tackle the comics stories Reynolds alluded to, but he was vague (possibly deliberately so) about exact details.  

More Superhero Team-Ups Await

When and how Deadpool appears again in the MCU will likely depend on the resolution of Avengers: Secret Wars. That Doomsday sequel is supposed to reset the whole cinematic universe, paving the way for recasting characters and making it so that certain groups (like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four) have always been there. This may allow for a new version of Deadpool, one who has experience with the various iconic Marvel heroes. Alternatively, his uncanny ability to break the fourth wall might make him one of the only characters who understands that all of reality has been rewritten around him.

Of course, we can always cross our fingers he ends up in an adjacent multiverse, allowing for a big-screen adaptation of the infamous comic Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe. Hey, a fanboy can dream, right? At any rate, we’ll likely know a bit more about the Deadpool movie by the end of the year. Until then, fans can enjoy their overloaded plates full of Marvel entertainment like Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday. Just be sure to take a page out of Deadpool’s book and leave room for some chimichangas!