Jennifer Garner to Reprise Her Role as Elektra in "Deadpool 3" after Nearly 20 Years

American actress Jennifer Garner is set to reprise her role as the sai-wielding superhero Elektra in Marvel's highly-anticipated movie "Deadpool 3".

Hugh Jackman is also reprising his performance as Wolverine for the upcoming installment, which is rapidly becoming a multiverse mash-up of bygone non-MCU Marvel movie characters. 

Garner first played the role of Elektra Natchios in 2003’s “Daredevil” with Ben Affleck and returned to headline the 2005 standalone movie “Elektra”.

The actress was one of the few women to lead a studio comic book movie at the time.

In 2021, Garner told the Hollywood Reporter that she wished both of those movies had been produced by Kevin Feige as a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

“It’s such a shame, honestly, because once Kevin took over everything there was elevated: the writing, the direction, the comedy inside of the stories they were telling,” she said. “And I did not have that experience.” 

Shawn Levy, who just directed Reynolds and Garner in 2022’s “The Adam Project”, is helming the threequel, from a script by franchise mainstays Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin penned a previous draft. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige will join Reynolds and Levy as producers.

Morena Baccarin, Karan Soni, Brianna Hildebrand and Leslie Uggams are returning from the previous movies, which were made by 20th Century Fox prior to Disney’s acquisition of the studio. 

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

"Deadpool 3" has been in development for years now but was further delayed by the 2019 Disney/Fox merger.

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

The threequel was officially confirmed in December 2019. 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”.

After the acquisition, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige was quick to confirm 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.

The project also marks the first Deadpool movie in which Marvel will work hand in hand with Reynolds and Team Deadpool. Feige’s involvement comes after he helped revamp the Spider-Man franchise when he came on to help in the creative effort for that Sony series.

"Deadpool 3" hits theatres on May 3, 2024.