Free Guy Director Shawn Levy Confirmed To Direct Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool 3

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Shawn Levy, who directed two movies with Ryan Reynolds — Free Guy, and The Adam Project — is now in final negotiations to direct one of Ryan Reynolds’ most anticipated upcoming projects — Deadpool 3 — The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who worked on the first two movies, are both set to return for the third one.

Although he debuted as Wade Wilson in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds didn’t get to play a faithful incarnation of Deadpool until his own 2016 movie. Directed by Tim Miller, the first Deadpool movie was both critical and commercial success, and the sequel, directed by David Leitch, followed in 2018. In 2019, Disney purchased Fox, which had the rights for X-Men characters, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four. President of Disney’s Marvel Studios Kevin Feige revealed that Deadpool 3 will eventually happen, and the movie will still be rated R (which is pretty controversial considering that Disney is known for its family-friendly content).

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Ryan Reynolds was never doubted to return as the Merc with the Mouth, and Zazie Beetz, who played Domino in Deadpool 2, also expressed her interest to play the role again. And if Josh Brolin returns as Cable, that’s gonna be one interesting collision of the Marvel Multiverse, and he might look really familiar to the Avengers.

Shawn Levy was nominated for the Academy Award for Arrival, a sci-fi movie starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner which he produced, and Denis Villeneuve directed. Levy is also known for directing the Night at the Museum movie trilogy starring Ben Stiller.

Deadpool 3 is being developed in secrecy behind Marvel’s walls, and there are few who know what the movie is going to be about and when it’s gonna be released. One thing that’s for sure, the movie will have a lot of impact on the MCU once it hits theaters.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.