After a lengthy delay due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, filming on Marvel Studios’ Deadpool 3 has been completed, star Ryan Reynolds announced on Instagram on Wednesday.
Reynolds thanked the Deadpool 3 cast, crew and director Shawn Levy, while also making fun of co-star Hugh Jackman. The touching, almost heartfelt message was balanced by an image of the superhero’s spandex crotch, in classic Reynolds and Deadpool fashion.
“The suit hides the blood, and the sweat…but today I’m watching the Deadpool movie, and I’m almost in tears. A huge thank you forever to the cast and crew of this film who fought wind, rain and strikes under the determined leadership of @slevydirect and @thehughjackman,” Reynolds wrote on Instagram. “I made a movie with some of my closest friends and that doesn’t happen very often. See you on July 26th…⚔️🥺⚔️.”
Deadpool 3 was originally set to hit theaters on May 3, 2024. It was scheduled to be released, but like many other films, it was postponed during last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike. The new date is July 26th and will mark Deadpool’s official entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe following Disney’s acquisition of Fox. The previous two Deadpool films and the entire X-Men franchise were owned and published by Fox before Disney completed its $71.3 billion acquisition in 2019.
The latest Deadpool movie will reunite Reynolds and Jackman, who co-starred in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Before appearing as the Merc with a Mouth in two solo films, Reynolds played a version of Deadpool in X-Men Origins, which was a huge flop with critics and fans. The legendary X-Men hero died in Logan at the end of 2017, but Deadpool 3 will bring him and Wolverine together. But superhero movies have a way for characters to come back from the dead, especially considering the world-changing rules of his MCU multiverse.