The trailer for Deadpool 3 — officially titled Deadpool & Wolverine — was revealed during the 2024 Super Bowl on Sunday. Watch the first-look preview of the highly anticipated July 26th release below.
Ever since Disney bought 21st Century Fox back in 2019, comic book fans have been waiting for the pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe Fox characters to fully merge with the proper MCU. There have been hints since then — the post-credits cameo in The Marvels or the Quicksilver misdirect in WandaVision — but Deadpool 3 marks the first full-on incursion of the FCU with the MCU. (The Spider-Men in Spider-Man: No Way Home were a Sony thing, but I digress…)
Also marking Marvel’s first R-rated feature film, Deadpool 3 sees Ryan Reynold back as the Merc with a Mouth, this time set up as — in his own words — “Marvel Jesus.” As the trailer establishes, a happy Wade Wilson is recruited by the Time Variance Authority (the agency responsible for keeping all of time across the multiverse in line, featured prominently in Loki) for a mission that could make him “a hero among heroes.”
What exactly that means isn’t clear, but it clearly involves bridging the multiversal divide between the crumbling Fox universe (literally) with the MCU. Shown images of the Avengers, Deadpool confidently declares, “Your little cinematic universe is about to change forever.”
And he won’t be alone. As the film’s title makes clear, Deadpool will finally team up with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in proper fashion (again, literally). Jackman’s return is the only Fox hero teased in the trailer, but rumors have it everyone from Sabretooth to Toad to Jennifer Garner’s Elektra are due to appear. Also unconfirmed is Emma Corrin’s villainous role, though reports also indicate she’ll be portraying the X-Men villain Cassandra Nova. Oh, and Dogpool will make his debut.
Marvel has a lot riding on this movie, as it’s their only theatrical release of 2024. After an uneven reception to Phase 4 (2021’s WandaVision through 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and the rocky start to Phase 5 (begun with 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania), The Multiverse Saga has been a mixed bag, to put it lightly. In response, Marvel and Disney have pumped the breaks on their plans, slowing down output and drastically altering productions in hopes of righting the ship.