It’s no secret that the first solo Wolverine movie sucked. It screwed up the character of Deadpool big-time and it completely ruined the first ever onscreen pairing of Wolverine and the Merc with the Mouth. My eye still twitches every time I think about that movie.
Since then, Ryan Reynolds has made it almost his life’s work to erase every bit of that mistake out of our collective memories through his awesome Deadpool movies. While he has been wildly successful in redeeming the red-suited chatterbox, getting Jackman onboard for a Deadpool movie has been a different story.
And it sounds like he’s getting increasingly desperate now.
Since Jackman retired from superheroism following his brilliant swansong Logan, getting Wolverine for a Deadpool movie is basically never gonna happen. However, this hasn’t deterred Reynolds from campaigning for Jackman’s return and he may have a solution that will make everyone happy.
During a Deadpool 2 interview with Buzzfeed, Reynolds reiterated his desire to get his grubby mitts on Jackman for a future Deadpool movie and he wants it so badly that he’s willing to have the man play himself instead of Wolverine.
Excuse me for a sec…
In one way, it’s a little sad that our dream Deadpool and Wolverine onscreen team up may never happen. On the other hand, having Jackman play “Hugh Jackman” in a Deadpool movie is the perfect way to sidestep around that little problem.
Given the fourth-wall-breaking nature of Deadpool, and how Wolverine and “Hugh Jackman” both exist in Deadpool‘s anything-goes movie universe, having Jackman rock up as some twisted version of himself would be just as good as Wolverine anyway.
We may never get another appearance of Jackman as Wolverine, but having the man play himself alongside Deadpool is not too shabby of a consolatory prize.
Besides, we never thought a good Deadpool movie would ever happen and we somehow got two of them, so anything is possible.