Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Join the Writers’ Room for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
The question of whether Deadpool and Wolverine will show up in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ has been hanging over Marvel fans for months. Marvel has kept quiet, but a new clue has surfaced from an unexpected place: the film’s official writing credits. Fans are now treating it as the strongest hint yet that Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are part of the crossover.
The discovery came from the Writers Guild of America. The WGA has added the full list of writers who worked on ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ to its directory, and comic book movie fans are already scanning it for clues about the film’s contents. The directory lists the final credits as of October 21.
The biggest surprise is that Reynolds and Jackman are listed among the 10 writers who contributed to ‘Avengers: Doomsday’. Stephen McFeely, who co-wrote ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’, and Michael Waldron, known for ‘Loki’ and ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, are officially credited as the movie’s writers.
Reynolds and Jackman are credited alongside Eric Pearson, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jeff Loveness, Andrew Lanham, and ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ director Destin Daniel Cretton for “additional literary material.”
The credit isn’t the same as a screenplay credit. The WGA defines additional literary material as an official film credit that recognizes Guild-contracted writers who contributed writing services to a theatrical feature but did not qualify for a traditional primary writing credit. It covers writing that made it into the movie but does not appear on screen when the credits roll.
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That makes the most likely explanation fairly simple. The credits certainly seem like they would be for writing dialogue for their ‘X-Men’ characters, but it’s unclear if or how much they would appear in ‘Doomsday’.
For Reynolds, this is familiar territory. He previously earned official screenwriting credit on ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and ‘Deadpool 2’. Back in May, he told Sunday Today he had written more Deadpool material and sees the character fitting into ensembles from here.
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For Jackman, it’s a milestone. This is actually Jackman’s first official writing credit listed in the WGA directory. He was not credited as a writer on ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’. Reynolds seemingly couldn’t resist reacting. He responded to the credit by sharing a quick moment from ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ on X, in which Matthew Macfadyen’s Paradox says, “Oh, there’s no need for paperwork.” Variety has reached out to reps for Marvel, Reynolds and Jackman for comment.
Some of the other names point back to the film’s turbulent development. Cretton and Loveness were originally hired to direct and write ‘The Kang Dynasty’. In November 2023, Cretton departed, Waldron replaced Loveness as writer, and Marvel was considering moving away from the Kang storyline. Majors was fired the following month.
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That history suggests parts of the abandoned version survived. Murphy’s Multiverse argued that the credits for Loveness, Cretton and ‘Shang-Chi’ co-writer Lanham show that some foundational story beats from the scrapped fifth ‘Avengers’ draft made it through the pivot to Doctor Doom. McKenna and Sommers, meanwhile, wrote the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, while Pearson wrote ‘Thunderbolts*’.
Despite the strong hint, Marvel hasn’t announced Deadpool or Wolverine for the film. Screen Rant suggested confirmation may not come before release, leaving it as a surprise for Marvel fans on opening day.
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Fans won’t have long to find out. ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ is set to open in theaters on December 18, with Robert Downey Jr. leading the cast as Doctor Doom. If Reynolds and Jackman’s fingerprints are on the script, there’s a good chance their characters are too.
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