I’ll be catching this one, as will all critics, on Tuesday morning.
Come on now, out yourselves — which of our readers is actually excited to catch “Deadpool & Wolverine” next weekend? I won’t judge. There must be plenty of you out there. Otherwise, how is this film supposed to gross $150M on its opening weekend? There’s clearly a lot of you out there. Don’t be ashamed.
Online movie fans are going bananas over the final “Deadpool & Wolverine” trailer having been released this morning. Some are creaming their pants just by watching Hugh Jackman don the yellow Wolverine suit, while others are angry that one of the cameos in the film was spoiled in the trailer.
As Scorsese has said, numerous times, this ain’t cinema. Rather, this is yet another MCU movie being pushed to us via colossal conglomerates, asset-management companies, and private-equity firms. Hey, don’t get me wrong, it could turn out to be decent, but there’s something icky about succumbing to this kind of glossy and self-referential entertainment.
This is the movie that Matthew Vaughn, and a few other Hollywood bigwigs, claim will “save the whole Marvel universe.”. Based on the “buzz,” I have no doubt that Shawn Levy’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” will be a box office success, but will it be a “good” movie? That’s a whole other story.
Succeeding directors Tim Miller and David Leitch, Levy is helming this third ‘Deadpool’ movie. He’s the stalwart filmmaker behind “Big Fat Liar,” “Just Married,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “The Internship,” “Real Steal,” the “Pink Panther” reboot and those “Night at the Museum” movies. Not a single good movie out of the bunch.
The first two ‘Deadpool’ movies each grossed around $780 million worldwide. The franchise has only grown in popularity on home media and the notion that this third one could cross the billion dollar mark is not a stretch — it’s also set to become the first R-rated instalment of the MCU.
Marvel is trying wipe out the stink of their last flop, “The Marvels,” and will be banking hard on this one, which is set to be the only MCU movie released this year. It’s an R-rated buddy comedy. As the trailer suggests, it’s also a road trip movie. Levy said he borrowed from 1988’s “Midnight Run.” As with all of these ‘Deadpool’ movies, there’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek meta humor going on here.
“Deadpool & Wolverine,” the second to last movie in the MCU’s Phase 5, is scheduled for a July 26, 2024.
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