Ryan Reynolds has discussed the future of his beloved Marvel character, and suggested that the next Deadpool movie will likely look different.

The return of Deadpool has long felt inevitable, following the enormous success of 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which made more than $1.3 billion at the box office. So far, however, no plans have been made concrete — and there’s no suggestion that Reynolds will be back for this year’s Avengers: Doomsday, which looks to be a more serious and somber affair.

Over the past year, Reynolds has said he has been developing an idea for an ensemble film, with The Hollywood Reporter claiming that multiple X-Men characters could potentially be involved. However, Reynolds has also admitted he has only been working on the idea privately, without a formal pitch to Marvel — which is itself busy making an X-Men reboot of its own.

Now, speaking to Today, Reynolds has gone further still on the idea of a team-up movie, and suggested that he’s moved on from making solo Deadpool movies altogether.

“I have some stuff written,” Reynolds said, “but I don’t think I’m ever going to center him again. He’s a supporting character, he’s a guy that is great in a group.”

Reynolds has talked in the past about how he’d like to see Deadpool appear as a formal part of the Avengers or the X-Men — though also felt hesitant about doing so as normalizing the wacky character into a simple team member would feel like “the end of his journey.”

Instead, it seems more likely that Deadpool will next appear with members of the X-Force or X-Men in their own unit — and there’s certainly no suggestion that he’ll be appearing in the X-Men reboot, which is reportedly aiming to feature an all-new cast and a “youth-orientated” vibe. Exactly who will be included in the line-up remains unclear, however, as much remains uncertain over who will survive the events of this year’s Avengers: Doomsday, and what state the MCU will even be in following 2027’s climactic Avengers: Secret Wars.

Indeed, Marvel recently confirmed that Avengers: Secret Wars would act as something of a “reset” for the MCU (don’t call it a reboot), allowing its universe to feature fresh versions of classic characters interacting with the surviving members of its core cast.

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