Jennifer Garner is coming back as Elektra for Deadpool 3
18 years after starring in the Elektra stand-alone movie, Garner is teaming up with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman for the 2024 film
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Today, in “We legitimately did not see this one coming” news: Jennifer Garner is apparently picking back up her sais and Greek ninja costume after an 18-year absence, with THR reporting that the Party Down star has joined the cast of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool 3. And, yes, Garner will be playing Elektra Natchios, a character she last played in 2005's Elektra, a spin-off of the original Daredevil movie, which came out more than two decades ago at this point.
Like we said: Did not see this one coming.
That being said, it’s not like Garner has lost her taste for action scenes in the intervening years: We’re only five years out from her vigilante violence showcase Peppermint, which readily displayed the fact that Jennifer Garner is still totally down to kill a dude in very bloody fashion. She also recently appeared in Reynolds’ Netflix film The Adam Project, which presumably helped pave the way for the pair to cook this latest collaboration up.
As for what Elektra’s appearance in the film will entail, it’s hard to say, given how tightly the plot for Deadpool 3 is being kept under wraps. (Even though Reynolds presumably isn’t improvising his own dialogue for this one, thanks to the ongoing Writers Guild strike, which means the script is at least set in stone for once.) Both Deadpool and Elektra operate at a similar tier in the world of Marvel Comics—which could be loosely described as “anti-heroes who mostly just shoot and stab folks”—although comic-Deadpool has a long friendship with Elektra’s occasional murderer, Bullseye, that might make a team-up awkward. And once you get Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the mix—whose own return to the world of stab-happy heroes is being positioned as one of the main reasons to make the movie in the first place—god only knows how many sharp objects will go flying once the movie hits theaters in May 2024.
Garner is one of two actors to play Elektra in live-action; the other, Élodie Yung, played the character in the Netflix Daredevil show and its spin-off, The Defenders.
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Can Reb Brown be far behind?
Now that would be funny for the dozen of us who’d recognize him.“Look everyone, it’s 1970s Captain America! The one who fought Sir Christopher Lee!”
Bold strategy to bring back all the pre-MCU characters no one liked
I assume it’s so they can make a bunch of jokes about how the Daredevil movie/Elektra sucked.
Also maybe even a few meta Affleck/Garner jokes
… Wolverine?
There’s only one daredevil movie character to bring back , and that’s Colin Farrells Bullseye.
Kinda figure that’s the next announcement.
If Ryan Reynolds really wants to impress me, have Michael Chiklis cameo as The Thing in that dumb suit he had to wear.
I’m sure Reynolds would do it.
I doubt Chiklis would. He needed therapy after the fact.
In that movies defense, that suit was a hell of a lot better than whatever they did in the reboot.
I’m one of the only people I know that actually liked the 2003 Daredevil movie, and even more so the director’s cut. I have a soft spot in my heart for her Elecktra even though her movie was hot fucking garbage. (Also Sydney Bristow is on up there with Buffy Summers as my teen crushes and my teen self will never let go)
I always liked that Flaming daredevil logo. that was dope
Pretty catchy score, as well.
I’m right there with you. The movie has its issues, but I’ve got a soft spot for it as well. I’ve also gone so far as to say it does some stuff better than the show, like actually accommodating his blind disability in his daily life, and how it depicts his superpowers. However, I do quite prefer Netflix’s version of Elektra.
Is she going to be fun and up to the challenge or is it going to be “ho-ho she sure is in on the joke of her sucking and somehow that means she doesn’t despite what we’re now watching” for 90 minutes?Just bring in Keira Knightley as Cable already. She has range.
I believe you mean Domino.
She already did that in 2005. It was fine but didn’t really make an impact.Low-tier Tony Scott is still Tony Scott but he’s not around anymore.
It’ll be much better without Jughead.
They’re doing a pre-MCU multiverse movie aren’t they. Give me Dolph Punisher and Hasslehoff Nick Fury.
I’m very, very down for Deadpool jumping around to some of the pre-MCU clunkers. I think that’d be great. FF 1 and 2DaredevilBlade 3Either of the first two Punishers (RIP to the third)Hasslehoff Fury
And then they all die in less than five minutes
Bring back Reynolds as Hannibal King!
that reminds me that I’ve never seen Hasslehoff Fury lol
the idea sounds so much more entertaining than the reality
That probably would have been a funny surprise. Oh, well.
you know they’re going to have a Deadpool/Elektra dance/fight lol
Come on Emma Stone as Gwenpool!
She’s a good sport. Also, this would have been more fun as a surprise.Also also, not exactly Andrew Garfield or Michael Keaton we’re talking about here (and I’m hoping that’s the joke).
She was a highlight of the recent season of Party Down, so more Jennifer Garner is a good thing IMHO.