"Deadpool & Wolverine" Final Trailer Unveiled

Marvel Studios’ final trailer for Ryan Reynolds’ highly-anticipated movie "Deadpool & Wolverine" has let two of the movie’s big surprises out of the bag. 

The first is that Lady Deadpool will be popping up alongside many other variants of the Merc with the Mouth. 

Various glimpses of the tentpole had teased Lady Deadpool’s arrival, but this final trailer unveils the character in all her glory for the first time. Now, fans will have to speculate which actor is under the mask (Blake Lively? Taylor Swift?).

The second and biggest reveal in the final “Deadpool & Wolverine” is the appearance of Dafne Keen, who memorably played the child mutant X-23 opposite Hugh Jackman in 2017’s “Logan.” 

The pic was supposed to be Jackman’s final outing as his iconic X-Men character, that is until he agreed to play Wolverine once again in the new “Deadpool” movie. 

Jackman has stressed that he’s playing a different iteration of Wolverine and not the one who died in “Logan,” so it was anyone’s guess if Keen would actually appear in the new film.

For her part, Keen had been telling press during promotion for her performance on “The Acolyte” that she would not be popping up in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” 

She even told On Demand Entertainment on the “The Acolyte” red carpet that she was sad not to get the chance to reunite with Jackman.

“Of course it’s sad. I love Hugh and creatively, I love Ryan [Reynolds] and I love Shawn [Levy],” Keen said. “I’m really excited to see what they’ve made. I think Shawn is one of the best directors out there right now. Obviously, Ryan’s a legend. It would have been amazing to be part of it, but I’ll just go watch it as a fan, to see my old buddy in it.”

The threequel has been in development for years but suffered a setback by the 2019 Disney/Fox merger and further delay by the SAG-AFTRA strike last year.

It marks the first Marvel Studios project to use characters now available to it after Disney purchased 21st Century Fox, which gave Marvel access to mutants, including “Deadpool”, “The X-Men”, and “The Fantastic Four”.

The franchise is the top-grossing X-Men movies of all time, with 2016’s "Deadpool" and 2018’s follow-up “Deadpool 2” huge box office, earning over $1.5 billion worldwide. 

The two previous “Deadpool” movies, along with the entire “X-Men” franchise, were owned and released by Fox before the $71.3 billion acquisition.

After the acquisition, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige quickly confirmed the franchise as a keeper for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

“Deadpool 3” will be the first R-rated movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and also marks the first Deadpool movie in which Marvel will work hand in hand with Reynolds and Team Deadpool.

Levy is on board to direct with Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese returning to pen the threequel. Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin penned a previous draft. Marvel Studios boss joins Reynolds and Levy as producers.

Reynolds and Levy previously collaborated on the Reynolds hit comedy movie "Free Guy" and Netflix's "The Adam Project".

The latest “Deadpool” movie will be a reunion for Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, who previously starred together in 2009’s ill-fated “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

Now, the threequel will bring Deadpool and Wolverine together — even though the iconic X-Men hero died at the end of 2017’s “Logan”. But characters have a way of returning from the dead in superhero movies, especially with the universe-bending rules of the MCU’s multiverse.

“Deadpool 3” features a ton of mind-blowing cameos: Aaron Stanford as Pyro and Tyler Mane as Sabretooth, Jennifer Garner as Elektra, Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Karan Soni as Dopinder, and Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead.

Emma Corrin and Matthew Macfadyen will also star in the upcoming movie.

Set to hit theaters on July 26, the pic will run for 127 minutes, or 2 hours and 7 minutes. This would make "Deadpool & Wolverine" the longest movie in the Deadpool franchise to date. 

The original Deadpool (2016) had a runtime of 108 minutes (1 hour, 48 minutes), while its 2018 sequel, Deadpool 2, clocked in at 119 minutes (1 hour, 59 minutes).

Despite crossing the two-hour mark, "Deadpool & Wolverine" falls short of being the longest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). That feat belongs to 2019's "Avengers: Endgame", which boasts an epic runtime of 3 hours and 1 minute.

The second-longest MCU film to date is 2022's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", at 2 hours and 41 minutes. Rounding out the MCU's longest films are "Eternals" (2 hours, 36 minutes), "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" (2 hours, 29 minutes), and "Avengers: Infinity War" (2 hours, 29 minutes).