Hugh Jackman was giddy as a schoolboy to say yes to Deadpool & Wolverine
“I had to ring my agent and said, ‘Oh, by the way, I have just committed to a movie.'"
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The most fascinating thing about this July’s Deadpool & Wolverine—other than wondering whether Ryan Reynolds’ Merc With The Mouth will end up literally bludgeoning someone to death with the ruins of old 20th Century Fox X-Men franchise—is just how adorably jazzed Hugh Jackman seems to be about the whole thing. A few weeks ago, news broke that Marvel’s own Kevin Feige actually tried to step in and dissuade Jackman from doing the movie, since it could be seen as undoing the conclusion reached in 2017's Logan—only to have Jackman be lured forward by his Deadpool love. But, hey, at least Feige was in the conversation: Jackman says he actually committed to making Reynolds’ movie before even bothering to consult with his agent, which is usually, you know, frowned upon when choosing to suddenly revive the single most popular character of your career.
“I had to ring my agent and said, ‘Oh, by the way, I have just committed to a movie,’” Jackman revealed in a recent Fandango interview alongside Reynolds, revealing that pretty much nobody was going to stop him from getting his –snkt– on again.
I was on my way, I was just driving, and literally, just like a bolt of lightning, came this knowing deep in my gut that I wanted to do this film with Ryan.For Deapdool and Wolverine to come back together. I swear to you, When I said I was done, I really thought I was done. But in the back of my head, ever since I saw ‘Deadpool’ 1, I was like, ‘Those two characters together.’ I knew it, I knew the fans wanted it ever since I put on the claws, people talked about these two. So, that had always been there, but I just knew.
Deadpool & Wolverine arrives in theater on July 26; we assume Jackman is just giddy as the dickens for the film to actually be here.
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I’ll never get the “no, don’t touch the perfect ending of Logan!” thing. Sure it was a good movie, but talk about a downer ending. And a downer opening. and a downer middle section where our hero desperately tries to tell his dying friend and mentor that he wasn’t the one who brutally murdered him. Like I thought we were always meant to believe that was an alternate future, and that Days of Future Past wasn’t just to buy mutants like two more years of existence.
A comic book? With alternate futures and/or realities?Well, I never!
Well, that’s the thing: once any kind of multiverse and/or branching timeline situation is uncorked, that’s that. Sure, some people will feel like nothing matters, but other people will understand that you can tell a meaningful story in World A and then tell another meaningful story in World B.And yes, of course you’ll end up getting into “Well actually this is Timeline 4 of World B intersecting with Timeline 3 of World C…” but whatever. The principle holds.Nothing ever ends. Nothing is everything except everything.
I was told there wouldn’t be any math!
the selling point and marketing materials was essentially ‘this is the last appearance of beloved hugh jackman as wolverine in a serious, r-rated movie. superhero movies are serious and we are sending him off with love and respect’
to have him come back in a deadpool movie less than 10 years later doesn’t undo anything, obviously, the movie exists and works on its own but it does leave me with a little ‘boy he needed money eh?’ feeling. it’s not encouraging it just feels desperate, and that’s what’s turning me off, personally. also i’m tired of seeing roided out 50+ year olds in general.
we should not judge movies by their marketing.
my eyes just rolled so far back i have to go to the hospital.
get well soon.
Two fans of Ana de Armas just entered the chat lol
If he wears the silly mask I’d say it was worth it.
I feel like people (myself included) collectively forgot that Logan is an alternate future. That really does put a lot of this to rest.
Is anybody else starting to get a bit nervous that this is all going to suck based on the relentless PR blitz that’s happening around this movie?
Every movie has the exact same PR blitz, we just don’t notice when it’s for a movie marketed outside our demographic. But people don’t talk like this when it’s a total stinker – they do the Madame Web press tour and basically apologize over and over for the movie.
oh i had that feeling long before the PR blitz.
It can suck for all I care as long as I get my fastball special.
Not sure the hype is really that different though the question of MCU fatigue might make them more inclined to do a bigger PR blitz. It’s one thing when a middling film does poorly, it’s another when one of the more popular entries doesn’t do as well.
I’m stoked on it but tbh….. it would be SO fascinating if it was bad. I’m just so curious. Between parents being upset that their kids snuck into an R rated film and the high expectations fan boys have built up it would be outright insanity if people don’t like this.
I’m waiting to see “they made Deadpool ‘woke’”. I actually did find a subreddit where an MCU-hater was trying to rally people to boycott this film already.
I had this theory recently that maybe the MCU became too popular and Feige realized nothing will be good enough for the fans anymore so he produced an extremely fan servicey film that will disappoint fans so that people stop caring as much about the MCU, allowing them to stumble on for decades. At least that’s what I’d do.
“before even bothering to consult with his agent, which is usually, you know, frowned upon when choosing to suddenly revive the single most popular character of your career”Is it?
Yea I think his agent wasn’t too disappointed as long as they still got their 10% of the millions he will make off this movie. Especially for doing no work.
Exactly. He just said he would do the movie. It would be another thing if he said “I called my agent and told him that I agreed to do the movie and to do it for scale with nothing on the back-end – that’s how much I love Wolverine!”
That’s what I was thinking. The agent’s job is to find projects and get signed. He gets paid without doing the job–what’s not to like.
i think it puts them in a pretty bad position when it comes to negotiating specifics. it also just looks bad on you and your agency when the star you supposedly represent is going rogue.
Does it, though? Other agencies want to look like they’re controlling their clients’ every move and don’t let them make decisions for themselves? That’s the image they’re going for?
i think that’s a wildly stupid extrapolation, but if hugh jackman can go ahead and make deals on his own without the agent…that’s gonna make the agent look bad and like he’s not needed. that was my point.
That seemed unnecessarily unkind, but in my defense it was the reasonable extrapolation from either a very ill-considered or very ill-worded claim.“hugh jackman can go ahead and make deals on his own without the agent”Okay if agreeing to do a movie in a conversation with a friend, something that I imagine happens all the time, without any sort of contract signing or anything legally binding or any agreements as to payment, etc., counts as making deals then yeah I guess I see it.
The only way I can see the agent being upset is if he felt he could have gotten Jackman (and himself) more money by playing hard to get.
I’ll allow it. Though that’s not what the writer here said–he alleged it was something to do with reviving the character at all–but I’ll allow the money issue.
It’s a conversation he would have with his *manager*, not his agent. His agent would be plenty happy to get his commission for doing nothing but ironing out the perqs.
Exactly.
The agent works for him, not the other way around
Still hoping he let down his universe by not actually being Wolverine but a Skrull impersonator named Jack Human. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
my actual hope was that he would be coming to ‘the real world’ and working with ‘hugh jackman’ who would just constantly get the actual shit kicked out of him and would mostly be a song and dance man.i had also hoped they would go super meta and call it ‘deadpool 4′ and act like we missed a sequel.
lol Deadpool 4 woulda been good.