Fox‘s X-Men movie franchise star Famke Janssen has weighed in on a possible Jean Grey reprisal in Marvel Studios‘ Deadpool & Wolverine.
During an interview with ComicBook.com to promote Boy Kills World, Janssen was asked if she could be the next X-Men star entering the MCU. “I don’t know. I mean, I didn’t expect to come back after dying as Jean Grey,” Janssen said. “I came back as the Phoenix [in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand], and I came back in flashback scenes in The Wolverine, and then in Days of Future Past.“
Since Disney acquired Fox and the X-Men movie license in 2019, multiple stars from the past movies have popped up in the MCU. Among them include Evan Peters‘ Quicksilver in WandaVision, Patrick Stewart‘s Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Kelsey Grammer‘s Beast in The Marvels. As Janssen considers her past X-Men cameos during the Fox era “were all surprises that I never anticipated,” she hints there could still be room for Jean to show up with Hugh Jackman and other returning characters in Deadpool & Wolverine.
“I don’t know. I doubt it, but you never know,” Janssen said.
While Janssen appears guarded about a Jean Grey return, her on-screen romantic interest James Marsden recently slipped a big tease about possibly returning as Scott Summers/Cyclops. The actor revealed he was in London working on Sonic the Hedgehog 3 not too far from the Deadpool & Wolverine set.
“We were actually near the . . . Deadpool [production] stages up there in Pinewood,” Marsden said. “Yeah, this is a little . . . bit of a Pandora’s box.”
What is Deadpool & Wolverine about?
The official synopsis for Deadpool & Wolverine reads: “In Marvel Studios ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’, Wade Wilson is confronted by the TVA, which pulls him from a seemingly quiet life and results in Deadpool being unleashed.”
Directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine co-stars Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Jennifer Garner, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Stefan Kapičić, Rob Delaney, and Matthew Macfadyen. Franchise screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick return alongside Zeb Wells penning the threequel from a previous draft by Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin.
Deadpool & Wolverine hits cinemas on July 26.
