‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ unleashes into theaters July 26

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are ready to fight.

Marvel Studios released a new trailer for the pair’s upcoming superhero movie Deadpool & Wolverine on April 22, further teasing the much hyped third Deadpool movie with footage set to Madonna’s 1989 hit “Like a Prayer.”

After a first teaser trailer for the movie released in February previewed only a glimpse at Jackman’s iconic X-Men character Logan / Wolverine, the new trailer shows Reynolds’ character Wade Wilson – a.k.a. the fourth-wall breaking superhero Deadpool — approach Wolverine at a bar to recruit him to help save the world.

After something of a fight between the two characters, Deadpool learns through Matthew Macfadyen’s mysterious character that this version of Wolverine failed in his past adventures with the X-Men. Deadpool eventually appears to recruit the jaded superhero to enlist him on a third action-packed adventure.

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Deadpool & Wolverine marks the series’ first entry within the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the previous films in the series were produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, prior to Disney’s purchase of the studio and the rights to incorporate Deadpool and other X-Men characters into Marvel Studios’ shared universe.

Real-life friends Reynolds and Jackman revealed that Jackman is reprising his role as Wolverine back in September 2022. The pair quickly specified that Deadpool & Wolverine will not negate the events of 2017’s Logan, which previously appeared to be the final time Jackman intended to play the character, whom he first suited up as in 2000’s X-Men.

Reynolds shared some jokes regarding the trailer’s release on Instagram, where he wrote alongside the video that he “found the guy who killed Bambi’s mom” in reference to the classic Disney animated film Bambi. The actor also shared one of the new character posters for the film on the social media platform, writing in a caption, “Hang it in the Louvre.”

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Aside from Reynolds, Jackman and Macfadyen, the third Deadpool movie also stars Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams and Karan Soni. Corrin, whom Reynolds announced as a costar back in February 2023 in a post he shared on X, briefly appears in the trailer for confrontations with Wolverine and Deadpool, at one point remarking that “boys are so silly.”

The film is directed by Shawn Levy; he and Reynolds collaborated on the movie’s script along with screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Zeb Wells.

     Deadpool & Wolverine is in theaters July 26.