Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman surprise Comic-Con fans with ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ screening – and spoiler-heavy guests

26 July, 2024

'Deadpool & Wolverine'

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman surprised fans at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 with a screening of Deadpool & Wolverine, before welcoming some spoiler-heavy guests to the stage.

On Thursday (July 25), the day before the film’s official release in the US, Reynolds, Jackman, co-star Emma Corrin, director Shawn Levy, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige all addressed the crowd at San Diego Convention Center’s Hall H.

“We’ve been around the world with this movie but this is the icing on the cake, right here,” said Jackman.

Recalling promoting the first Deadpool film at Comic-Con in 2015, a visibly emotional Reynolds added: “I was the most nervous human being you would ever see. I was stepping into a dream come true … and I remember making that movie for you. And I remember how gratifying it was that everyone else liked it too.”

Fans were then treated to a surprise screening of Deadpool & Wolverine. After it finished, a number of the film’s surprise cast members were welcomed onto the stage.

Major spoilers ahead.

Joining them in Hall H were actors Chris Evans, who reprises his role as Fantastic Four‘s Johnny Storm aka Human Torch; Jennifer Garner, returning as Elektra from Daredevil; Wesley Snipes, who returns as the titular vampire hunter in Blade; Channing Tatum as Gambit, a Marvel character he previously came close to playing on the big screen; and Dafne Keen, who reprises her role from Logan as Laura aka X-23.

Reynolds and Jackman hugged each of their fellow cast members before the group posed for photos and left the stage together.

Deadpool & Wolverine also stars Matthew Macfadyen, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney and Leslie Uggams. Following the events of 2018’s Deadpool 2, it sees the titular mercenary dragged into a dangerous multiverse mission by the TVA, where he soon unites with a Logan/Wolverine variant to take on a common enemy.

The film has generally divided opinion among critics, with many highlighting its lack of substance and “desperate” attempts to entertain with flat jokes and inconsequential fight scenes.

In a three-star review, NME wrote: “Despite the A-list distractions, Deadpool & Wolverine is really all about Reynolds and Jackman. In fact, it’s really all about Reynolds – with Jackman doing a heroic job of playing the surly straight man trying to keep up with Reynolds’ sweary killer clown. The first two Deadpool films were funny and violent and original, but this one shows Marvel’s most gloriously inappropriate superhero at his very best and worst.

“Where does the MCU go from here? With an endless loop of multiverse MacGuffins to fall back on, it can probably keep going as if none of this has happened. But if the superhero era really is finally starting to wind down, Deadpool & Wolverine will always be remembered as the film that started dancing on the grave first – to a Madonna song…”

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