Deadpool 3 will NOT make its proposed release date

The current actor strike in Hollywood is wreaking havoc on Deadpool 3.

Since May, several movie and television productions have been impacted by striking writers and actors in the industry. The Writers Guild of America have reached an agreement with studios to return to work, but The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists remain locked in fierce negotiations.

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Actors are concerned about the emergence of artificial intelligence tools being used to replicate their likeness, as well as residual payments from streaming platforms.

Deadpool 3 is one of many movies impacted, and director Shawn Levy has revealed that he only completed half of filming before the strikes.

“I wish I knew," he told The Wrap when asked about Deadpool 3's release date.

"I don’t even know if we officially have . I know we were gonna be May 3. Certainly, the Actors’ Strike and the long pause in production have put that release date in true risk. We’ve shot half the movie. I’ve edited half the movie. We’re dying to get back to work and get this movie out next year.”

In the short time between the writers striking and the actors joining, there was no improvisation allowed on-set which would have impacted Ryan Reynolds, who regularly went off-script in the first two movies.

Deadline reports that Deadpool 3 will be pushed back from the proposed release date of 3 May 2024.

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Deadpool (2016)

Wade Wilson is a special government agent who, after being subjected to a treatment that gives him superhuman healing powers, takes on an alter ego in the form of 'Deadpool'. Armed with his newfound skills and a twisted sense of humor, he hunts down the man who has ruined nearly his entire life.

Directed by: Tim Miller
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin and Ed Skrein

Hugh Jackman returns as Deadpool

Hugh Jackman will make a highly-anticipated return as Wolverine in Deadpool 3 alongside Reynolds.

The Australian actor last appeared as the character in 2017's Logan in which the famous comic book character actually died. When production on that movie finished, he suggested that his time playing the role was over.

However, he was subsequently encouraged to return as Logan by his pal Reynolds. Allegedly, the only plot device that would have catalysed Jackman's return was the promise of finally hooking up on-screen with the Deadpool everyone knows and loves after the disaster that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

His casting has raised further questions about Jackman's potential involvement in the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Deadpool 3 takes place in it.

However, Deadpool 3 director Shawn Levy admits he is in the dark about that.

"Like the rest of the world, I've waited two decades to see Wolverine in a whole movie with Deadpool, and I don't know if this is our last shot at Wolverine on screen, so I was going to make goddamned sure we get the old yellow and blue just once, and that we get it right," he told Entertainment Weekly.

The X-Men, including a version of Wolverine, will be included in the MCU sooner or later after previously being under the authority of 20th Century Fox.