Hugh Jackman proves that you don’t spend a quarter of a century with the X-Men franchise without knowing how to have a little fun with it. As the world watched the Super Bowl go into overtime and digested the trailer Deadpool and WolverineJackson tweeted through it.
Jackman is definitely back for it Deadpool and Wolverineeven though the trailer only teased his appearance, showing him from behind in a white suit and giving us a look at his clawing shadow.
Why the secrecy? Well, the people behind it D&W‘s marketing is likely sticking with a Wolverine costume reveal. Ryan Reynolds unveiled Jackman’s new look on his Instagram last summer, but you can’t expect that news to have spread as widely as a Super Bowl trailer.
You can click here to check out that costume, as well as this teaser poster for it Deadpool and Wolverine already teases the look: Wolverine’s classic yellow and black with the horned mask.
In a sense, Jackman is merely closing his circle with Reynolds. The two played together X-Men Origin: Wolverinea film that is infamous for many things, but the most important because it has a very, very, terribly strange take on Deadpool.
Is Deadpool and Wolverine the apology we deserve? We’ll find out when the film hits theaters on July 26.