When Disney bought Fox, a whole new world of crossover opportunities opened up including one between the Marvel cinematic universe and the world of X-Men.
While there’s not a lot of certainty surrounding which X-Men characters will make the jump over to Disney productions in their current form, there’s one hero who seems to be more safe than the others: Deadpool.
And now the rumour mill – courtesy of fan site MCU Cosmic – is churning out a number of ideas for when we’ll get to see him on our screens next.
The most obvious and most likely is in another standalone movie, which we’ll call Deadpool 3 for now.
The second movie in the sweary franchise knocked Avengers: Infinity War off the box office top spot when it was released in the summer of 2018, so you can’t blame Disney for wanting to cash in on another blockbuster opportunity.
But what about that merging of universes? Well, here’s where things get exciting because according to whispers in the Marvel camp, there are plans to make Deadpool appear in Tom Holland’s third Spider-Man movie.
Two joke-making, sarcastic superheros clad in red spandex? Er, yes please.
And for any purists out there, don’t panic. It turns out the pair have already teamed up for a series of Marvel comics which launched in 2016 and are still being published.
Another option apparently being discussed is to give Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool his own series, which will stream exclusively on the much-anticipated streaming platform Disney+.
Fans of the R-Rated unconventional hero will be delighted with this idea, as it means we’ll get so much more Deadpool than ever before.
You will, however, have to sign up for the $6.99 (£5.50) a month service and there’s no news on when it will be launched in the UK.
There are also reports that R Rated content won’t be available on Disney+., which would take away the main reason we like Deadpool in the first place – his foul mouth.
We’re still a little wary about what Disney’s acquisition of Fox will mean for the rest of the cinematic universes we all know and love, but if a Deadpool/Spider-Man crossover is where they’re headed then we’re into it.
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