Jennifer Garner Joins Deadpool 3 To Reprise Role As Daredevil’s Elektra

Simply while you assume you may by no means decide up these sai once more, all of a sudden it is 20 years later, you are 51, and also you get the decision from Marvel–and you are proper again in. Jennifer Garner will reprise her position as Marvel’s Elektra within the upcoming Deadpool 3, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jennifer Garner performed the position of Elektra Natchios within the 2003 Daredevil movie, and once more in 2005’s Elektra. Now she’ll return to the position for Deadpool 3. Deadpool 3 appears to be bringing a handful of actors out of superhero retirement. After years of goofing on one another on social media, Ryan Reynolds introduced Deadpool 3 alongside Hugh Jackman, who confirmed that he’ll be popping out of retirement to as soon as once more play Wolverine.

THR’s report additionally comes on the heels of rumors that Ben Affleck himself could be returning as Daredevil for the film, in addition to rumors earlier this spring that James Marsden, Famke Janssen, and Halle Barry would return as Cyclops, Jean Gray, and Storm, respectively. These rumors are strictly that–rumors–but Garner’s return appears to lend some credence to them probably being true.

As THR notes, Garner’s involvement would level towards Deadpool 3 having some form of multiverse element. It is sensible for the collection; Ryan Reynolds first portrayed a model of the character alongside Jackman in X-Males Origins: Wolverine, and the primary Deadpool movie launched even because the X-Males movies had been rebooted with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender within the roles of Charles Xavier and Magneto. Fox launched the primary two Deadpool movies, whereas this third one shall be underneath Disney’s Marvel Studios.

In different phrases, the fourth-wall-breaking Merc with a Mouth is form of a one-man multiverse himself. We’re prepared to guess that he, Garner, and every other rumored returning actors shall be working additional time to poke enjoyable at their previous roles. Garner specifically was one of many first ladies to steer a superhero film in Elektra, however the film carried out poorly on the field workplace and with critics–it sports activities a outstanding 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The entire thing calls to thoughts the ultimate moments of the latest Flash movie, which ended with a tongue-in-cheek cameo from a former DC Comics actor.

Shawn Levy, who beforehand labored with Reynolds on Free Man and The Adam Mission, is directing the movie. Alongside Reynolds, Jackman, and Garner, returning actors embrace Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Negasonic Grownup Warhead now?), Karan Soni as Dopinder, and Rob Delaney as Peter, the one surviving member of Deadpool’s X-Power. Deadpool 3 is presently set to launch on Might 4, 2024.