Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds teases addition to Marvel Cinematic Universe for Phase 5
Could the Merc with a Mouth be making his MCU debut?
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Your support makes all the difference.Ryan Reynolds has fuelled speculation about Deadpool’s involvement in Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
On Sunday, the actor shared a post on Instagram marking the five-year anniversary of the Deadpool test footage ‘leak’.
The post revealed Reynolds’s “investigation” into who might have been responsible for leaking the footage online and, alongside an image of a cork board bearing multiple clues, he wrote: “Investigation heading into year 5. Or as I call it, ‘Phase 5’. The point is, I love conspiracy-yarn. #LeakAversary”
Reynolds’s reference to “Phase 5” has many fans speculating that the Merc with a Mouth will be making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut.
Deadpool was missing from the MCU’s Phase 4 announcement earlier this month, but recent comments from director David Leitch have suggested Reynolds’s character could appear in the future.
“I know Marvel announced their slate and I think people were like, ‘Deadpool’s not on it,’” Leitch told Uproxx. “I would never say never. And I think, obviously, he’s such a beloved character and it’s such a compelling world people want to go back. And I think they will find a way to do it.
“But I’m just being patient and let everybody take a breath and see how it works for them in the new Marvel, Disney world. And, hopefully, I’ll get the call. And that would be cool.”
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