Director: Shawn Levy

Release Date: July 26, 2024

Deadpool is invading the MCU, and he’s not taking it lying down, though he does tell the guards that drag him away that he does have experience taking it other ways. As the only Marvel Cinematic Universe movie on the schedule for this year, Deadpool & Wolverine (trailer) reunites the merc with a mouth with his best frenemy, Wolverine, played once again by Hugh Jackman. In the first teaser for the movie, the Time Variance Authority drags Wade out of his own birthday party and into the multiverse. He proclaims himself Marvel Jesus, and then gets into a battle in front of what appears to be the 20th Century Fox sign. As he lays on the ground, next to a copy of Marvel’s Secret Wars #5, a shadow with spiky hair and even spikier knuckles stands over him. It doesn’t seem like things are going to go great for him at first. But it’s Deadpool; they never do.

We’re recounting the trailer because it acts as a sort of a blinking neon sign for the film. It screams that yes, Deadpool is being released by Disney, but it’s not a “Disney movie.” It’s as prurient and self-referential as ever, and absolutely shatters the fourth wall. Deadpool might as well come sit next to us in the theater at this point.