By Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige reportedly had one condition for the inclusion of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine into the Marvel Cinematic Universe – and it all had to do with his outfit.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” director Shawn Levy along with Jackman and Ryan Reynolds were in Shanghai the other day to show off around 35 minutes of footage from the film to an audience.
The event marked the kick off of the film’s publicity campaign which will be taking place in full over the next few weeks up until the film’s release on July 26th.
Levy, speaking about getting Feige onboard with “Deadpool & Wolverine” being a part of the MCU, says: “He said, ‘Yes, but he wears the yellow. Can he finally wear the yellow?’ And we began.”
Reynolds revealed that back in 2016 is when he first suggest the idea of team-up film, long before Disney’s 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox which made it actually possible, and at the time Feige said it wouldn’t happen:
“I had met Kevin Feige six years ago to discuss this, and the first thing I said to him, ‘I just want to make Wolverine and Deadpool together. I just want these two together on screen.’ At the time, Kevin said, ‘Forget it. It’s never going to happen,’ and I said, ‘Okay, that’s fine.’
After the acquisition, Reynolds and Levy started pitching various “Deadpool 3” ideas and after multiple failed attempts they were about to give up:
As we marched inexorably forward, Shawn and I were coming up with different pitches and different ideas, and we pitched Marvel everything you could imagine – little movies, big movies, anything – and it wasn’t working out.
Then one day, we were on our last pitch. We were about to say to Kevin Feige, ‘I think we’re going to walk away and we’ll come back later, maybe in a couple years, when we have a better sense of things.’ And Hugh happened to call me.
Shawn and I just pivoted in the middle of our pitch to Kevin and said, ‘Look, this thing just happened. It seems kind of miraculous. Hugh called me, what do you say?’ And for some reason, Kevin immediately said yes.”
Levy added that’s when the condition about the yellow costume came up.
Separately, speaking with EW, Feige says he’s aware of the reports of an “X-Men” movie in development at the studio and while he has declined to comment on that, he does say: “July 26 is really when it all starts, when Deadpool & Wolverine comes out.”
What those plans are will be revealed in about three weeks when Marvel holds its Hall H panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con – a panel expected to take place on the afternoon of Saturday July 27th.
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