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Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Surprise Comic-Con Fans With ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Screening — and Spoiler-Filled Guests

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Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Surprise Comic-Con Fans With ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Screening — and Spoiler-Filled Guests

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman surprised fans at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 with a screening of Deadpool and Wolverinebefore welcoming a few spoiler-laden guests on stage.

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

“We’ve been around the world with this movie, but this is the cherry on top,” Jackman said.

Recalling the promotion of the first dead Pool When the film was presented at Comic-Con in 2015, a visibly emotional Reynolds added, “I was the most nervous human being you could ever see. I was walking into a dream come true… and I remember making this movie for you. And I remember how gratifying it was that everyone else loved it, too.”

Fans were then treated to a surprise screening of Deadpool and WolverineAfter the film ended, several members of the film’s surprise cast were welcomed on stage.

Major spoilers ahead.

In Hall H, actors Chris Evans, who reprises his role as The Fantastic FourJohnny Storm, aka Human Torch; Jennifer Garner, back as Elektra from Daredevil; Wesley Snipes, who returns as the titular vampire hunter in Blade; Channing Tatum as Gambit, a Marvel character he was already set to play on the big screen; and Dafne Keen, who reprises her role as Logan like Laura aka X-23.

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

Deadpool and Wolverine also stars Matthew Macfadyen, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney and Leslie Uggams. Following the events of 2018 Deadpool 2It sees the titular mercenary drawn into a dangerous multiverse mission by the TVA, where he soon teams up with a Logan/Wolverine variant to face a common enemy.

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

In a three-star review, NME wrote: “Despite the top-notch distractions, Deadpool and Wolverine Deadpool is really a Reynolds and Jackman story. In fact, it’s Reynolds who’s actually the hero of the story, with Jackman doing a heroic job of playing the gruff, straight-laced man trying to keep up with Reynolds’ foul-mouthed killer clown. The first two Deadpool movies were funny, violent, and original, but this one shows Marvel’s most gloriously inappropriate superhero at his best and worst.

“Where does the MCU go from here? With an endless loop of multiverse MacGuffins to fall back on, it can probably continue as if none of this happened. But if the superhero era really does start to fizzle out, Deadpool and Wolverine will always be remembered as the film that started dancing on the grave first – to a Madonna song…”