I Understand Why Marvel Deleted Deadpool 3"s MCU Timeline Retcon Scenes, But I Still Need It To Happen

Deadpool & Wolverine deleted scenes would have retconned the official MCU timeline - but I still want to see them in the future. Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine is now available to stream on Disney Plus alongside Deadpool & Wolverine itself. The documentary provides a detailed look at the making of the MCU"s multi-record-breaking movie across an hour. It mostly comprises interviews with the filmmakers and actors while also offering a peek at the filming process.
These interviews reveal how Deadpool & Wolverine was molded in its earliest stages of development. Pitching the movie as Deadpool 3, before Hugh Jackman jumped aboard the process, one of the challenges faced by Reynolds and other filmmakers was working out how to suitably integrate Deadpool into the MCU and justify its existence as part of the main MCU timeline. Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine reveals one idea was floated that could never have worked - not yet, anyway.
1 Deadpool 3 Movie Idea Would've Retconned The MCU Timeline Deadpool & Wolverine's Executive Producer Revealed An Interesting Early Concept For Deadpool 3

Custom image by Felipe Rangel Early in the documentary, Deadpool & Wolverine executive producer, Wendy Jacobson, joins Reynolds in listing various concepts that were pitched to Marvel Studios. These included:

A $4 million low-budget Sundance-type movie in which there would be no action, but Deadpool in his suit would feature.
A frame-for-frame remake of Thor: The Dark World featuring Deadpool.
An unspecified sequence of ideas that ranged from small to big-picture.

The last pitch that Jacobson revealed involved retconning Deadpool into the main MCU timeline and revealing all of his scenes were deleted. Jacobson"s full quote is as follows:
[indent] "We had a "Deadpool"s Deleted Scenes Extravaganza." We were going to try and show that he was in the MCU the whole time, you just didn"t see his scenes, they were all on the cutting room floor."
[/indent]Jacobson clarified that this idea was contained in some of their notes, suggesting that it didn"t get very far off the ground. It ultimately fell to Hugh Jackman"s holiday-borne epiphany that he wanted to make a "Wolverine and Deadpool" movie that won everybody over on the characters" integration into the MCU. I"m glad he did for myriad reasons - but among the biggest is the fact that retconning Deadpool into the MCU just wouldn"t have worked.
Why The Deadpool 3 Deleted Scenes Extravaganza Idea Wouldn't Have Worked It's Difficult To Understand What The Plot Would Have Been Close It"s difficult to fathom how this version of Deadpool 3 would have comprised a compelling plot. Revisiting old MCU stories with Deadpool included might have been entertaining but feels more like a standalone gag within a wider Deadpool movie. By contrast, Deadpool & Wolverine felt like a solid continuation of Deadpool"s arc within Fox"s X-Men universe, deftly wielding the implications of the multiverse to at least partially integrate him into the MCU, albeit in realms distinct from the core movies" location in Earth-616.
Deadpool & Wolverine ends with Deadpool remaining in Earth-10005, which is distinct from the MCU"s mainline universe.
I think this speaks to another question regarding why it would have been necessary to have had Deadpool be a core, albeit overlooked, member of the MCU"s cast. Doing so would have also meant explaining where the rest of the X-Men were in the MCU throughout that time, given his ties to that franchise. Sure, it may have been explained by the same time-traveling MacGuffin that saw Deadpool being interviewed by Happy Hogan, but I can understand why the studio ultimately sidestepped the idea entirely given how difficult it would be to craft an entire movie around that.
How Marvel Can Still Pull Off A Major Deadpool MCU Timeline Retcon Montage Marvel Can Still Use The Concept As A Montage In A Larger Movie

As I mentioned, having Deadpool traverse the MCU in a montage feels distinctly like a gag within a wider narrative. The success of Deadpool & Wolverine means Deadpool"s MCU return is extremely likely - and, this time, we might even see him interact with other characters like Spider-Man. A rumored soft reboot of the MCU after Avengers: Secret Wars, meanwhile, could see the myriad characters of the multiverse condense into a single universe in an emulation of Marvel Comics merging its disparate universes after 2015"s Secret Wars.
Incidentally, this could pay off the Thor tease, as the scene featuring Thor in Deadpool & Wolverine was ripped straight from Thor: The Dark World.
Whether it"s in Deadpool 4 or a future ensemble movie (that wouldn"t be tonally incompatible with such a gag), a montage integrating Deadpool into the MCU would make more sense as a consequence of these timelines merging. Incidentally, this could pay off the Thor tease, as the scene featuring Thor in Deadpool & Wolverine was ripped straight from Thor: The Dark World. Finally, it would be a fitting homage to Deadpool"s time-traveling shenanigans in the post-credits scene of Deadpool 2. With Deadpool missing from the MCU"s main events, I would very much enjoy a tongue-in-cheek retcon in this manner.

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8/10 173 9.1/10 Deadpool & Wolverine R A follow-up to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 films starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
Director Shawn Levy Release Date July 26, 2024 Studio(s) Marvel , Maximum Effort Cast Ryan Reynolds , Hugh Jackman , Emma Corrin , Morena Baccarin , Rob Delaney , Leslie Uggams , Karan Soni , Matthew Macfadyen , Brianna Hildebrand , Shioli Kutsuna , Stefan Kapicic , Lewis Tan , Randal Reeder , Jennifer Garner , Aaron Stanford , Billy Clements , Ollie Palmer , Chris Hemsworth , Rob McElhenney Runtime 127 Minutes Expand Upcoming MCU Movies