Los Angeles:
Shawn Levy, the director of Free Guy and the recently released The Adam Project, is set to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he has been signed to direct the third instalment of the anti-hero film Deadpool, reports ‘Variety’.
Ryan Reynolds will be essaying the role of ‘merc with a mouth’ for Deadpool 3. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who penned the first two Deadpool films, will write the third movie based on the X-Men comic book character, created by Rob Liefeld.
As per ‘Variety’, Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin and Wendy Molyneux, Emmy-winning writers of Bobs Burgers, had been previously tapped to write Deadpool 3, but Reese and Wernick will instead return for a third outing.
Besides Reynolds, the details regarding other cast members are still under wraps. The second Deadpool film introduced Josh Brolin as Cable and Zazie Beetz as Domino. Reynolds also shared the news on Twitter with an image featuring his characters in Deadpool 3, The Adam Project and Free Guy. He tweeted, “The third film in my Shawn Levy trilogy will be a tad more stabby.” (IANS)