‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Trailer Brings Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Together as Frenemies

For Ryan Reynolds, the latest Deadpool & Wolverine trailer is a chance for audiences to see two marquee characters together, a pairing that “took seven years and a lot of begging” to get Hugh Jackman to return as Wolverine.

Ahead of the new trailer (watch below), Reynolds shared the post-credits scene from Deadpool 2 (2018), which showed Deadpool traveling through time to “clean up the timelines” — which included rectifying some mistakes from Reynolds’ own filmography. Among them was X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), which starred Jackman and featured Reynolds as Wade Wilson. The film was widely panned, in particular for a climax that included Wade Wilson with his mouth sewn shut — a particularly affront to comic book fans given that Wilson is known for being such a talkative character.

“Eventually, you’re going to hang up the claws, and it’s going to make a lot of people very sad. But one day, your old pal Wade is going to ask you to get back in the saddle again. And when he does, say yes,” Deadpool told Logan in the Deadpool 2 post-credits scene.

Reynolds had long wanted Jackman to appear in a Deadpool film, and though Jackman retired from Wolverine with 2017’s Logan, the Australian actor eventually decided to return.

Shawn Levy is at the helm of the new movie, which arrives July 26 and marks Marvel Studios’ first R-rated film. Marvel boss Kevin Feige teased the project at CinemaCon earlier this month, where the usually clean-imaged executive brought out some F-bombs in honor of the R-rating.

Said Feige: “It’s fucking awesome.”