The third and final Deadpool & Wolverine trailer has arrived and with it so have the ladies of the franchise, Lady Deadpool and X-23, played by Dafne Keen, last seen in the hit movie Logan, the supposed swan song for Hugh Jackman’s portrayal of Wolverine.
Jackman is playing another iteration of the famed X-Men antihero, as he has told the press and as happens occasionally in comic book franchise blockbuster movie universes. Ryan Reynolds returns as the titular smartass vigilante with a total disregard for the fourth wall, and the final trailer release ahead of Deadpool & Wolverine, opening in theaters next week, focuses on the dramatic moments between Wolverine and Deadpool, two of the biggest misanthropes Marvel has produced (so a natural pairing here).
“I know I turn everything into a joke. But I care. And I wanted to use that for something important,” Reynolds, as Deadpool, says via voiceover, taking an uncharacteristically serious tone. Expected in this round are multiple versions of the feisty main character, including Cowboy Deadpool and Lady Deadpool, of whom we see a full top-to-bottom shot for the first time in this trailer.
However, Lady Deadpool’s face is masked, so viewers still don’t know who was cast as the female crime fighter. Taylor Swift, who is friends with Reynolds, and his wife, Blake Lively, are at the top of the rumor list. Either would certainly delight audiences.
Later in the drama and action-packed trailer, Wolverine sits in the woods, saying, “Whoever you think I am, you’ve got the wrong guy.” A reverse shot reveals he’s speaking with Keen’s X-23.
Director Shawn Levy recently told Collider of Deadpool & Wolverine that the movie features Deadpool’s tone but is not a sequel to Deadpool 2.
“And at the end of the day, as I think we’ve said, it’s very much a Deadpool movie, but this is not Deadpool 3,” he said. “This is Deadpool & Wolverine, and it is singular because of that.”
Deadpool & Wolverine opens July 26.