Ryan Reynolds Compares ‘The Adam Project’ to ‘E.T.,’ Insists Deadpool Is Not in ‘Doctor Strange 2’

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDespite rumors flying that Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool appears in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” the actor say it’s not happening.“I’m really not in the movie,” Reynolds told me on Tuesday night at the London West Hollywood before a special screening of his upcoming Netflix sci-fi action movie “The Adam Project.”When I suggested he could be lying, Reynolds insisted, “I’m promising, I’m not in the movie.”Fans have been speculating after some noticed what they believe is an image of Deadpool in a new poster for the upcoming “Doctor Strange” sequel.As for the third “Deadpool,” Reynolds would only say, “It’s coming along.”In “The Adam Project,” Reynolds stars as Adam, a fighter pilot in 2050 who befriends his 12-year-old self when he travels back in time to 2022.

Newcomer Walker Scobell makes his big screen debut as the young Adam. “I met him on Zoom,” Walker recalled of meeting Reynolds for the first time. “It was definitely weird to see him like actually interacting with me.

But in person he’s way taller than I thought he would be.”Reynolds cracked, “I’m wearing those four-inch lifts.”Walker happens to also be a big “Deadpool” fan who can recite lines by heart from the antihero films. “We read, I don’t know, 147,000 kids it felt like, and then Walker read and it was just instant,” Reynolds said. “I think it was because he’d watched ‘Deadpool 1’ and ‘2’ thousands of times.

He knew them backwards and forwards. So logically we worked so well because he could be a mini-me.”“The Adam Project” marks a reunion for Reynolds and his “Free Guy” director Shawn Levy.