If you checked out a new video posted by Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman earlier this week hoping to find out how Marvel is planning to bring Wolverine back from the dead, you’ll probably have been mildly disappointed – yet strangely uplifted. If there was anything to glean from the silliness on show, it was that Logan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) will most likely be playing straight man to Reynolds’ potty-mouthed Merc with a Mouth in Deadpool 3, and that Jackman probably has the comedy chops to pull this off.
The reason fans are asking questions, after this week’s news that the duo are teaming up for Marvel, is that Jackman signed off as Wolverine in James Mangold’s starkly brutal Logan in 2017. Not only was that movie billed as the Australian actor’s final appearance as the adamantium-clawed mutant, but he actually died at the end of it having been brutally murdered by a younger clone of himself.
