After “Deadpool & Wolverine” smashed the box office with a staggering $1.4 billion haul, it looks as though Ryan Reynolds wants to continue playing Marvel’s most foul-mouthed antihero.
Just nine months after the movie became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever, Reynolds is back at it. Turns out, even when he says he’s stepping back, he’s still very much in the game. Because when you’re Marvel’s most profitable smartass, you don’t retire—you delegate.
According to THR, Reynolds is juggling his creative midlife crisis by spitballing ideas for a Deadpool movie that would rope in some X-Men cameos. Reynolds has always insisted each Deadpool film needs an actual reason to exist (besides printing money), and this little mutant mash-up might just scratch that itch.
Of course, all of this is happening at the “throwing spaghetti at the wall” stage, but who are we kidding here? It’s going to happen.
Reynolds decided to lean into his writing during a conveniently timed hiatus from filming, though “convenient” might be a stretch, considering it lined up with his wife Blake Lively’s very public legal dust-up with “It Ends with Us” director/co-star Justin Baldoni. Reynolds, roped in as a co-plaintiff with Lively, is currently trying to lawyer his way out of the mess. If negotiations fail, everyone’s calendar just got a new entry: court date next March.
In the meantime, Reynolds is still polishing the script for “Boy Band,” a Paramount comedy about washed-up pop stars clinging to their former glory. Naturally, he’s set to star, and rumor has it Hugh Jackman is attached to co-star.
Netflix and Skydance Animation have also called it quits. The two sides announced Monday that they're ending the animated film deal struck back in 2023, framing it as a mutual decision.