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Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy opened up about the thought of casting Patrick Stewart in the new Marvel movie.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Deadpool & Wolverine” director Shawn Levy shut down rumors on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that Patrick Stewart was going to return as Charles Xavier/Professor X in the record-breaking Marvel blockbuster. While several actors who once played superheroes in Fox-backed Marvel movies popped up in the movie, from Jennifer Garner’s Elektra to Wesley Snipes’ Blade, Stewart was “never considered” to reunite with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine on screen. “Never even discussed,” Levy said when asked about Stewart’s rumored return.

that line in “Deadpool & Wolverine.”In the Marvel film, Jennifer Garner returns as Elektra and makes a joke about Affleck, who she was married to for 10 years.Shawn Levy, the director of the film, revealed on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast on Monday that he didn’t seek out Affleck’s approval for the jab.“No, we vetted it with Jen,” said Levy, 56. However, Levy did reveal that he had a conversation with Affleck, 51, about a different part of the film.“I later spoke with Ben because the end credits have this tribute reel to the legacy of Fox Marvel movies and so that gave us the occasion to speak to everyone because we needed and wanted everyone’s permission,” he said.Levy added, “That joke was not, as far as I know, vetted by Ben.”“But we made clear to Jen — as we made clear to everyone — everything’s on the table in ‘Deadpool,’ ” he explained.In the third “Deadpool” movie, Garner’s Elektra shows up to rescue a group of heroes, including Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.After learning that Daredevil — originally played by Affleck — has died, Deadpool offers Elektra his condolences.

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Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy has revealed that Henry Cavill was “sick to the stomach” for “eight hours straight” after smoking cigars during his cameo.The Man Of Steel star made a brief appearance in the movie as Wolverine variant “the Cavillrine” when Deadpool stumbles across him as he travels the multiverse seeking a version of Wolverine who will team up with him.While most of the variants are played by longtime Wolverine star Hugh Jackman in the Marvel movie, one of them is also played by a cigar smoking Cavill.“[He] not only had that pumped-up muscular body but kept that cigar lit and in his mouth for the entirety of the shoot day,” Levy told The New York Times.I love the fact that Deadpool is literally talking shit to DC for what they’ve done to Henry Cavill’s Superman #DeadpoolAndWolverinepic.twitter.com/oj0G0U5jdA— Zero (@zerowontmiss) July 29, 2024“I remember hearing the next day that Henry was sick to his stomach because he had been inhaling cigar smoke for eight hours straight, but never once did he waver.”Levy also said they called on the star to make an appearance shortly after it was announced that Cavill would not be returning as Superman in James Gunn‘s DC universe in December 2022.“It was not long after everything went down with DC and word came that Henry was being replaced as Superman,” Levy added.“Given that Deadpool is in constant conversation with culture, it felt like a great opportunity to first of all cast Henry Cavill in a part that he would kick ass at, but also to poke fun at that other comic-book-founded movie studio and play with some self-awareness there.”Along with Cavill, Chris Evans also made a cameo as Johnny Storm aka the Human Torch in the movie, a role he played in 2005’s

Deadpool & Wolverine” cast’s personal lives in the new Marvel blockbuster, director Shawn Levy said every crack was mutually agreed upon.“We never did a joke about or with anyone that we didn’t run by them first,” Levy, 56, told Variety. “Whether it was scripted, like the Daredevil line, or unscripted.”Beware, there are spoilers below.After Jennifer Garner’s Elektra is reintroduced, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool offers condolences for the death of Daredevil, who was played by Garner’s ex-husband, Ben Affleck, in 2003’s “Daredevil” (which Post critic Lou Lumenick awarded half a star.)“Oh, it’s fine,” she responds.Garner, 52, and Affleck, 51, were married for 10 years and announced they were divorcing in 2015.Another gag made light of co-star Hugh Jackman’s separation from wife of 27 years Deborra-Lee Furness.

We already know that Taylor Swift is the godmother of her best friend Blake Lively‘s children and know we know her fourth child also has a famous godfather.

Although Deadpool & Wolverine is stacked with star-studded cameos, one piece of fan casting never quite made it to the big screen.

Jordan Moreau Jennifer Garner had to get “Marvel fit” for her “Deadpool & Wolverine” cameo as the sai-wielding assassin Elektra, and she revealed her workout plan in an Instagram video on Monday. Garner’s return as Elektra was one of the A-list superhero cameos in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” and she revealed that Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy originally pitched the role to her while working together on the 2022 film “The Adam Project.” “I remember the moment @slevydirect and @vancityreynolds had the idea for Elektra Natchios to show up in @deadpoolmovie 3— we were on the set of ‘The Adam Project’ and they gave each other this look they have that can communicate an idea, 20 pages of dialogue, nuclear codes — there is a crazy artistic kismet between those two,” Garner wrote on Instagram.

Deadpool & Wolverine has a ton of celeb cameos, and the film’s director, Shawn Levy, is speaking out about two stars who did not appear: Taylor Swift and Ben Affleck.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter It started with a text. Or, really, several texts.

Jack Dunn SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which is now playing in theaters. After making a brief appearance in the 2021 action comedy “Free Guy,” Chris Evans told People he jumped at the opportunity to reunite with director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds to make a cameo in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” “It was a couple years ago and I got a text from Ryan, we’re buddies,” Evans said. “He just said, ‘Listen, if you don’t like this idea, no worries whatsoever.

Chris Evans has shared a photo taken on the set of Deadpool & Wolverine, showing him in costume with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool, and film director Shawn Levy.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which is now playing in theaters. Chris Evans took to his Instagram story to thank Ryan Reynolds for allowing him to play Johnny Storm/Human Torch again after a 17-year hiatus in Marvel’s “Deadpool & Wolverine.” The film, which debuted to a record-breaking $211 million at the domestic box office and is sure to cross the $1 billion mark worldwide in August, included Evans has one of its biggest surprise cameos.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer For all the raunchy jokes, club drugs, buckets of blood and meta punchlines, “Deadpool & Wolverine” may be the most sentimental movie of the summer. Hollywood insiders and superhero film fans were stunned to discover that last weekend’s Marvel blockbuster basically amounts to a big, sobbing, “Steel Magnolias”-grade sendoff to 20th Century Fox.

Hugh Jackman is reacting!

“I thought I had lost Gambit forever,” actor Channing Tatum writes in an emotional message on Instagram praising Ryan Reynolds for helping rescue Tatum’s dream of playing the Marvel character.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which is now playing in theaters Jennifer Garner attended her first Comic-Con over the weekend and it turned into an unforgettable event after she got stuck in an elevator for more than an hour. She documented the incident in a video post published to her Instagram.

Ryan Reynolds doesn’t quite know how to process to his historic weekend at the box office.

J. Kim Murphy Disney and Marvel Studios‘ “Deadpool & Wolverine” clawed up a massive $96 million from 4,210 locations across Friday and preview screenings. That’s far and away the biggest domestic opening day of the year — ahead of the $62 million that “Inside Out 2” nabbed in June.

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