Marvel boss Kevin Feige reveals he warned Hugh Jackman not to return as Wolverine upcoming deadpool movienow the title is deadpool and wolverine,
Jackman played the X-Men character in nine different films, with the character concluding with the acclaimed 2017 film logan,
However, Jackman is now set to return as Logan/Wolverine in the third Deadpool film alongside Ryan Reynolds.
“I said, ‘Let me give you a piece of advice, Hugh. ‘Don’t come back,'” Feige said, speaking Empire magazine, ,[Jackman had the greatest ending in history with Logan. That’s not something we should undo.”
At the end of Logan, which is set in a bleak and dystopian future, Jackman’s character ultimately sacrifices his life for the sake of a young protege.
Jackman also described his response to being offered the role in Deadpool and Wolverine. “I drove for another hour,” he recalled. “Couldn’t stop thinking about it. And I got out of the car, called Ryan [Reynolds]And said, ‘Ryan, if you’ve got me, I’m in.'”
It was also revealed that Feige had rejected Reynolds’ original pitch for the film, which would have involved subjectively retelling the same event multiple times along the lines of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic. Rashomon,
The actor says he first imagined the sequel “Rashomon The story about Wolverine and Deadpool and something they get into together, but told from three completely different perspectives. It was a way to make a large-scale film in a very small way.
Speaking about his decision to turn down the pitch, Feige said: “The truth is, I wasn’t sure yet how to incorporate Deadpool. I’ve been thinking a lot about how to bring together mutants and the X-Men [the Marvel Cinematic Universe], and I felt it needed to be more than just a hit song. But the truth is that Ryan is a thinking machine. So he may have put this point before me, but he also put forward 25 other ideas.
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After the idea was scrapped, Reynolds “went back to the drawing board” and wrote 18 different story ideas for the project.
“few of them [were] Almost like a Sundance movie, budget under $10 million, using IP [intellectual property] In a way that they hadn’t used it before,” he said. “And I introduced big movies, and I introduced things in between.”
deadpool and wolverine Released in theaters on 26th July.