Just when you thought “Deadpool and Wolverine” couldn’t get any thicker, director Shawn Levy and star Ryan Reynolds managed to pull off another coup and load up the year’s biggest summer blockbuster with another headline-grabbing addition . As if it wasn’t enough that Hugh Jackman came out of superhero retirement to make the adamantium blades and comic-accurate suit, the creative team has now officially revealed one of the many cameos that will send fans into a frenzy: Sabretooth from Tyler Mane. .
Of course, fans can expect this version of Sabretooth, decades in the making, to be slightly different from the one that first appeared more than two decades ago in the original “X-Men” film, which famously never even acknowledged the familial relationship between him and Wolverine and instead treated the secondary antagonist as a mindless muscleman which our hero had to defeat in a fight or two. He eventually exited the film after being blown out of the Statue of Liberty (don’t worry, further comic tie-ins confirmed he survived), never to be seen again in the main trilogy of films in the early 2000s. Once Liev Schreiber took over the role in “Origins,” fans waited to see if this much more appealing take on the character would ever reappear. (Apparently, “Logan” director James Mangold once seriously considered this possibility..) Instead, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is taking things back to the franchise’s live-action roots. What a twist!
“Deadpool & Wolverine” stars Reynolds and Jackman as the titular characters in a reunion for the ages, along with Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen and more. The blockbuster is set to hit theaters on July 26, 2024.
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