DEADPOOL 3 Casts SUCCESSION Actor Matthew Macfadyen

Marvel Studios and director Shawn Levy have cast Succession actor Matthew Macfadyen in Deadpool 3! He’s a fun actor and he’s going to make an interesting addition to the cast. There’s no word on who he’s playing, but that information will come in time. There’s no doubt he’ll play some kind of entertaining character in the movie.

Macfadyen joins Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and Emma Corrin, who will be playing a villain in the story. There are still no concrete story details to share about the movie, but we do know that Wolverine and Deadpool are not going to get along. Jackman previously explained that Wolverine hates Deadpool, saying:

“How do I categorize it? Ten being really close, zero being the reality, we’re zero, we’re opposites, hate each other. I’m just talking from my perspective, [Logan’s] frustrated by him, wants to be a million miles away from him or wants to punch him in the head. Unfortunately, he can’t be a million miles away from him in this movie, so I’m probably going to punch him in the head a lot.”

Reynolds also talked about developing the story for the movie with high fan expectations, saying that the tone of the film will be a “tightrope walk,” but he believes the crazy blend of these two personalities will make for a great movie:

“I think it’s a tightrope walk. I mean most of these movies are always a tightrope walk of tone, so in this instance, though, you have a collision of two pretty iconic characters that exist in the Marvel Ancillary Universe [laughs] — we’re in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at this point.

“It’s really kind of finding a way to service both of these characters that feels extraordinarily authentic to each of them, and I think these two wrongs actually will make a right in a pretty great way.”

The director previously teased the R-rated violence and foulness of the film, saying: "We are writing, rewriting, developing, prepping Deadpool every day now. It is such a blast to laugh every day. It is so delicious to hear and write and come up with these scenes where people are just talking foul. And the violence is in your face and hardcore, and it's very much a Deadpool movie."

The previously revealed Deadpool and Wolverine plot involved a Rashomon-style story with a road trip between Deadpool and Logan. A Rashomon-style story is where the same event is recounted by several characters, and the stories differ in ways that are impossible to reconcile. It shows that two or more people can view the same event differently.

Deadpool 3 is scheduled for a November 8, 2024 release.