Ryan Reynolds To Reunite With Free Guy Director Shawn Levy For Deadpool 3: "This Will Be A Tad More Stabby"

Shawn Levy is directing Deadpool 3.

Ryan Reynolds — who plays the titular wise-cracking antihero in the blockbuster Marvel franchise — has confirmed he's reuniting with the Free Guy and The Adam Project helmer on the third movie.

Sharing the news on social media, Reynolds, 45, wrote: "The third film in my Shawn Levy trilogy will be a tad more stabby."

According to Variety, the threequel featuring the Merc with the Mouth — created by Rob Liefield — will be written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who penned the first two Deadpool films. It looks like they have replaced Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin and Wendy Molyneux, Emmy-winning writers of Bobs Burgers who were originally signed to the movie.

Levy's other movies include the Night at the Museum series; the robot-boxing drama Real Steel, starring Reynolds' frenemy Hugh Jackman; and the Owen Wilson-Vince Vaughn workplace comedy The Internship. The Canadian filmmaker is also the executive producer of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things.

Say cheese: Hugh Jackman, Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds at 'The Adam Project' premiere in New York on Feb 28, 2022.

Levy directed Jackman in the 2010's robot boxing drama 'Real Steel'.

At time of writing, besides Reynolds, no other cast members are confirmed for Deadpool 3. It's also unknown if the movie will be R-rated like its predecessors, especially now that the character, once owned by 20th Century Fox, has been reverted to Marvel Studios where the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are either PG or PG13.

Disney's then-chairman and CEO Bob Iger did say that Disney would continue to make R-rated Deadpool movies and other adult-skewed Marvel stories.

However, he hinted that these films won’t be released under the traditional Marvel or Disney banner, and the company would make an effort to ensure it is “carefully branding [R-rated films]…so we’re not in any way confusing the consumer.”

In 2018, Fox released a PG13 version of Deadpool 2 called Once Upon a Deadpool, with the bad language and graphic violence removed and additional scenes featuring Fred Savage.