Deadpool 2 confirmed with Ryan Reynolds and original team

Hey, remember five years ago, when the X-Men producers imagined a future with a million X-Men movies? What a laugh we all had! Surely no major studio would ever greenlight a hard-R Deadpool movie. Surely Gambit would never be a thing, never.

We were wrong, dead wrong! With Deadpool now the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, Fox came to CinemaCon with some news about the future of its Marvel franchise. The studio officially announced that Ryan Reynolds would reteam with director Tim Miller and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick for Deadpool 2 – a no-brainer, given the film’s grosses (more than $757 million worldwide).

The studio also showed off a new trailer for next month’s X-Men: Apocalypse. The preview revealed a couple of intriguing key story points. First off – POSSIBLE SPOILER FOR A TRAILER THAT WILL BE RELEASED ONLINE SOON, WHAT WORLD DO WE LIVE IN – Apocalypse appears to confirm, once and for all, that Days of Future Past breakout Quicksilver is indeed the son of Michael Fassbender’s Magneto. (“Him and my mom did it,” is how Evan Peters’ Quicksilver explains it in the film.)

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