Rob Liefeld Says Marvel Studios Has "Zero" Plans for DEADPOOL 3

Marvel fans have been excited and curious about what Marvel Studio is planning for the future of Deadpool in the MCU. Ryan Reynolds said a few months ago that Deadpool 3 was in development at Marvel Studios and they’ve talked about how they don’t want to change anything in regards to the hardcore R-rated content.

Well, the creator of Deadpool, Rob Liefeld, is singing a different tune. He doesn’t believe that Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige are doing anything with the character. He says that they have “Zero” plans for Deadpool and that those movies have “set sail.” In an interview with Inverse, he was asked about the possibility of a Deadpool / X-Force movie after the spinoff was set up in Fox's Deadpool 2, and Liefeld answered:

"I don't know. Here's what people don't want to hear, but thank God I'm a realist. I feel like Deadpool, the movies, they've set sail. We got two brilliant movies, and we live in a culture that always looks forward because all they're ever selling us is 'next, next, next.' It's the fever. For me, as the fever calms down, people just need to calm down and realize that Deadpool 1 and 2 were released within two years of each other, 2016 and 2018, and I just can't… I'm not really that crazy about Marvel's plan right now."

That plan doesn’t include any Deadpool movie in the near future. They’ve got Black Widow, The Eternals, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings leading the pack. In regards to that Liefeld says:

"It's the first time I go, 'Hey, Feige, did you even have a plan? Your plan was Eternals and Shang-Chi? That was your plan? And Black Widow?’ So they close the door, Chris Evans says goodbye, Robert Downey Jr. says goodbye, Black Widow falls off a cliff says goodbye, they almost lose [Spider-Man actor] Tom Holland to Sony… but you're a genius, Marvel, you're a genius."

As you can see, he’s not hiding how he really feels! But, I know a lot of Marvel fans feel the same way. We’ll just have to wait and see how this next phase of Marvel plays out. If Marvel Studios started production on Deadpool 3 this year, Liefeld said:

"It would come out in four years. I can't be excited about that. I can't gloss it up. You want to know the plan with Deadpool right now? They have a goose egg, zero, zero."

Liefeld’s bitterness towards Marvel is certainly shining through. I don’t know what’s happening with the Deadpool franchise, but again, Reynolds has said that he and his team are working on it! He said:

“Yeah we're working on it right now with the whole team. We're over at Marvel [Studios] now, which is like the big leagues all of a sudden. It's kinda crazy. So yeah, we're working on it.”

So, unless Marvel has changed its mind in the past four months, there is a third Deadpool movie being developed at Marvel.