On July 13, SAG-AFTRA’s 160,000 actors went on strike. Filming on Deadpool 3, which began at the end of May, has since been halted.
Director Sean Levy and actors Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corinne, Jennifer Garner, Louis Tan, Morena Baccarin, Matthew McFadden and Karan Soni left their cameras and costumes in the dressing room.
While at the Toronto International Film Festival to receive the Norman Jewison Award for his career, Sean Levy spoke with the site. Deadline And revealed that Deadpool 3 was halfway through filming when the actors went on strike.
“Like the rest of our industry, or at least most of it, we’re on hiatus — we’ve been halfway through shooting. Every day of shooting has been a blast, and the chemistry, I have to say, is also relentlessly amazing, which we’ve all hoped for. We’re halfway through shooting.” .
The latter then confirms that production will resume once the writers and actors get what they want from the studios: better wages and an AI regulatory settlement. And according to one of the SAG-AFTRA negotiations, the strike could last until 2024. So it is unlikely that Deadpool 3 will be released as announced on May 1, 2024…
Deadpool 3
Not afraid to trust, the filmmaker is back EW On creating Wolverine’s famous yellow and blue suit worn by Hugh Jackman in the photos of Deadpool 3. This is literally the first time in 20 years that the actor has donned a yellow suit, which has fans excited.
“Like the rest of the world, I’ve been waiting two decades to see Wolverine and Deadpool reunite in one full movie. I don’t know if this is our last chance to see Wolverine on screen, so I made sure we did. See Wolverine’s good old yellow and blue suit at least once in the movies . Just once.”
The filmmaker explains that he and his team worked on multiple versions of the costume and that Hugh Jackman had to do “multiple fittings.”
I have access to an army of geeks
Sean Levy adds:The fact that I’m doing this movie as part of the MCU also helps a lot because I have access to an army of geeks who are absolute Marvel fans.” So fans of the comics and the movies are giving a big helping hand to the director and producer who is making his first Marvel superhero film here.
“The greatest cast ever assembled”
On the many casting rumors surrounding Deadpool 3, Levy remains vague, but does respond:Rumors of actors, singers, and athletes all seeming to be in Deadpool 3 are fabulous.
If I believe everything written on the Internet, I would have the greatest actor in the history of cinema. So I would just say that some of these rumors are true and some are not.“
To recall, after it was announced that Jennifer Garner would return as Elektra in a feature film dedicated to the irreverent Deadpool, rumors quickly spread about a possible appearance of Ben Affleck as Daredevil and Liev Schreiber as Jagged-Tooth-Sabre. which he already played in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009.
Source: Allocine
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