'Succession' star Matthew Macfadyen added to 'Deadpool 3' cast

Matthew Macfadyen. Pic/AFP

Succession star Matthew Macfadyen has been cast in Deadpool 3.

The Ryan Reynolds franchise will welcome Macfadyen, who plays the fan-favourite Tom Wambsgans on the HBO water-cooler smash, joining a new sequel that will also revive Hugh Jackman's beloved X-Men character Wolverine.

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman make the Deadpool 3 announcement

Shawn Levy returns as director, and Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick will pen the script. This will be the first Deadpool project made since the intellectual property went to Disney in its acquisition of 20th Century Fox.

All creatives involved insist the film will retain its extreme violence and raunchy tone, as well a hard R-rating. "It is such a blast to laugh every day. It is so delicious to hear and write and come up with these scenes where people are just talking foul. And the violence is in your face and hardcore, and it is much a Deadpool movie," Levy said last year.

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It was reported in December 2022 that production on the third Deadpool will commence in May. He will next appear in the feature Holland, Michigan opposite Nicole Kidman and Gael Garcia Bernal.

The fourth and final season of Succession is currently airing on HBO.

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