By Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige says that Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, returning from the dead in this week’s release of “Deadpool & Wolverine,” opens the door for more such resurrections in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In the film, Jackman plays a different iteration of Wolverine than the one from the “X-Men” films thanks to all the multiversal shenanigans in the Marvel film.
Speaking with Discussing Film whilst promoting the film, Feige indicates this opening of that door could allow justification for the return of say Robert Downey Jr. or Chris Evans to the MCU:
“That’s the key, right? How do you do it in a way that maintains what has come before, and in a great way? And we’ve been spending, you know, the last two-plus years figuring that out for Wolverine.
So, what’s to come? We’ll see. We’re just proud that we, I think, have figured it out for Wolverine. I think Hugh’s appearance and starring role in [‘Deadpool & Wolverine’] is a great sign that it can be done – if great care is taken.”
Downey has been quite open this year about his interest in coming back to Marvel as “Avengers” directors Anthony and Joe Russo are currently in talks to helm the next two films in that saga.
The comments follow on from ones Feige gave io9 the other day in which he was asked what characters alive in the MCU, and introduced relatively recently, will not be coming back. He says:
“I rarely speak in absolutes like that, right? The notion of never ever seeing somebody again, we’ve got Tim Blake Nelson in a movie coming up next year, right? So I never talk in absolutes like that.
But the truth is, you know, we’re going to tell a story in these Avengers movies, and there won’t be room for 100,000 characters in it. So choices will have to be made, that’s for sure. But that doesn’t mean you won’t ever see anybody ever again.”
“Deadpool & Wolverine,” which Feige has dubbed “the mutant era coming into the MCU,” is in cinemas July 26th.
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