Nobody saw her coming. And not because she’s an assassin, but because what were the odds that, almost two decades after Elektra flopped, Jennifer Garner would put on that nonsensical red outfit again? But that’s exactly what’s happening in Deadpool 3, apparently. Variety reports that Garner will join Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s mysteriously resurrected (or alternate-timeline) Wolverine in the third movie about the merc with the mouth.
Elektra, as a character, has never gotten a fair shake. (If you want to read more about how unlikely her appearances in films and television are, you can do that here.) The early-2000s Daredevil and Elektra were, to put it mildly, not great movies. And when Daredevil got a second chance in the Netflix-turned-Disney+ series, they still didn’t know what to do with Elektra, whose character arc is just one big disappointment.
But maybe now she’ll get to have fun! The Deadpool movies are notoriously irreverent (as they should be), and the return of Jackman, whose character definitely died in Logan, is a sure sign that this universe/timeline/whatever is doing things quite differently. Handsy-waveys, timey-wimey!
Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen is also joining the chaos this time around; Brianna Hildebrand, Morena Baccarin, Karan Soni, and Leslie Uggams return from the previous films. Shawn Levy directs, and the same dudes who wrote the other two screenplays, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, also wrote this one.
Deadpool 3 is set to premiere on May 3, 2024.
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