Ryan Reynolds Confirms Deadpool 3 Has Found A Director As The Movie Finally Moves

The long-awaited third installment in the Marvel character series is underway with Free Guy and Project director Adam Shawn Levy at the helm.

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Deadpool fans will be excited to hear that the long-awaited third installment in the X-Men spin-off series is finally underway once it has found a director.

The surprisingly violent and action-packed superhero comedy series first hit the big screen in 2016 with Ryan Reynolds reprising his role in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

After proving to be a huge hit, the film spawned a sequel that was released in 2018 – but the third installment in the series was complicated by Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox to distribute the two installments. first movie.

There are concerns that this could affect production on a third Deadpool movie – or even kill off the franchise – but 45-year-old Canadian actor Ryan has confirmed the film is in the works and has found directed.

On social media on Friday, the actor shared a photo of himself as three characters – Deadpool, Guy / Dude from Free Guy and Adam from The Adam Project.

He wrote alongside the image: “The third movie in my Shawn Levy trilogy is going to be a little tougher.”

The update has fans excited because it’s clear that 53-year-old Shawn – the director of Free Guy and The Adam Project – has been given the reins of Deadpool’s third installment.

One fan exclaimed: “DEADPOOL 3 YESSS CONFIRMED” – while another X-Men fan simply tweeted in response: “Let’s gooo!”.

Variety also reported on Shawn’s date, wrote: “The director of Free Guy and The Adam Project will once again team up with Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool 3, the highly anticipated third installment in the action comedy franchise.”

They added: “Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who penned the first two Deadpool films, will write a third film based on the X-Men comic book character, created by Rob Liefeld.”

The magazine notes that this means Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin and Wendy Molyneux, the Emmy Award-winning writers of Bobs Burgers, have been effectively replaced as writers on the third film.

The first two films proved to be huge hits, becoming the highest-grossing X-Men films in the series and grossing over $780 million (£598 million).

The box office success was even more surprising as the violent nature of the films resulted in the first two being R-rated in the United States.

There have been concerns that future Deadpool movies will be less violent due to the 20th Centruy Fox company being acquired by family-friendly Disney – who also owns Marvel, the comics company from which Deadpool originated. from that.

But former CEO Bob Iger has previously downplayed the risk.

He said in 2019: “We will continue in that business… There is definitely popularity [with those R-rated types of films]. ”

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