Deadpool & Wolverine | Feb 21 & 23
February 21 / 7:30 pm & February 23 / 2:00 pm
Starring Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Emma Corrin
Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction.
Hugh Jackman said he really was done playing the character of Wolverine after Logan (2017). He then said he regretted that statement after watching the first Deadpool movie and expressed to Ryan his interest in the two characters meeting on the big screen. When asked why he chose to return for this film, he simply said, “I just wanted to do it, and I felt it in my gut”, adding that he wanted to have the best possible time ever on a movie set together with Ryan Reynolds. Likewise, Reynolds wanted to work alongside Jackman since the first Deadpool film and was saddened when he (Jackman) retired from the role.
Kevin Feige was originally against bringing back Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, as he was concerned that doing so would undermine the events of Logan, a movie Feige held in very high esteem. He eventually relented once it was confirmed that this film would focus on a different variant of Wolverine, combined with Jackman really wanting to return to the role. His only stipulation for Jackman coming back was that Logan had to be depicted in his classic yellow and blue costume.
Hugh Jackman had to bulk back up into Wolverine shape. Although he’d maintain a fitness regime for health reasons, he slimmed down due to singing and dancing for eight shows a week in a revival of “The Music Man”, and needed to gain a large amount of muscle mass in the short gap between the end of the musical run and the start of principal photography.
Deadpool & Wolverine
Friday, February 21, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 23, 2:00pm
2024 | Rated R | 2hr, 8min