Marvel Studios has “zero” plans to make Deadpool 3, according to Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld.
In an interview with Inverse (via /Film), Liefeld was asked what the chances still are for a Deadpool/X-Force movie now that the characters are under the Disney/MCU umbrella and his response was not encouraging.
“I don’t know. Here’s what people don’t want to hear, but thank God I’m a realist. I feel like Deadpool, the movies, they’ve set sail,” Liefeld said. “We got two brilliant movies, and we live in a culture that always looks forward because all they’re ever selling us is ‘next, next, next.’ It’s the fever.”
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“For me, as the fever calms down, people just need to calm down and realize that Deadpool 1 and 2 were released within two years of each other, 2016 and 2018, and I just can’t… I’m not really that crazy about Marvel’s plan right now.”
Liefeld finds the MCU’s Phase 4 — which includes Black Widow, The Eternals, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — a less than exciting lineup than what preceded it. And it’s a lineup without any X-Men or mutant-related movies in it.
He added that even if Marvel Studios were to start work on a Deadpool movie today “it would come out in four years. I can’t get excited about that.”
“Know what their plan for Deadpool is right now? Goose egg. Zero. Zero!”
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Liefeld’s bleak outlook on the prospects for a Deadpool 3 are in sharp contrast to the cautious optimism promoted in the past by the likes of star Ryan Reynolds, co-screenwriter Paul Wernick, and director David Leitch.
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Source: IGN.com Deadpool 3 Unlikely to Happen at Marvel, Says Creator Rob Liefeld