DEADPOOL 2 Schedules Release Date

By: Apr. 22, 2017
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According to Variety, DEADPOOL 2 has set a tentative release date of June 1, 2018 for the highly anticipated film. Ryan Reynolds will return as the title character, with Josh Brolin confirmed to join the series as Cable. Filming is scheduled to being in June of 2017.

Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, "Deadpool" tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

20th Century Fox's DEADPOOL, starred Ryan Reynolds as the title character, T.J. Miller as Weasel, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Morena Baccarin as COPYCAT and Ed Skrein as Ajax. Directed by Tim Miller from a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Deadpool was released on February 12, 2016.

To read more about the upcoming release, visit Variety here.

Watch a previously released teaser for DEADPOOL 2 below:



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