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For longtime comic book movie fans, one of the major perks of Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine — other than one of the most beloved superhero portrayals of all time returning to the big screen — was seeing him in a classic X-Men costume for the first time.
While Jackman’s original run as Wolverine spanned 17 years and eight films, the Oscar nominee — and the rest of the universe, in general — were never seen in the traditional yellow and blue X-Men costumes. The original 2000 film famously changed the costumes to all-black leather, in fact.
Though Disney and Marvel Studios were wise enough to keep Jackman’s return as Wolverine held back from the first Deadpool & Wolverine teaser trailer, that didn’t stop them from unveiling Jackman in a Wolverine mask for the first time ever via… promotional artwork at CinemaCon?
With Disney set to present at CinemaCon on Thursday, April 11, a new trailer may be either shown exclusively to those in attendance or released online considering the fact that the film’s premiere is just about 3 months away, which is usually when movie marketing campaigns are kicked off in earnest.
Speaking to BroBible’s Post Credit Podcast, director Matthew Vaughn — who helmed 2011’s X-Men: First Class — said that Deadpool & Wolverine will “jolt [the MCU] back to life.”
“The few snippets that I know about Deadpool vs. Wolverine — or Wolverine vs. Deadpool, I’m sure that argument between Ryan and Hugh is happening as we speak — are unbelievable,” Vaughn said.
“That’s going to be the jolt… the Marvel universe is about to have a jolt of them and it’s going to bring that body back to life… I think Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are about to save the whole Marvel universe.”
Alongside Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Deadpool & Wolverine — which will be released in movie theaters on Friday, July 26 — also stars Emma Corrin, Owen Wilson, Matthew Macfadyen, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Jennifer Garner, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Stefan Kapičić, Rob Delaney, and more.
Check out the official teaser trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, directed by Free Guy filmmaker Shawn Levy, below.