Karan Soni & Leslie Uggams Returning For Next ‘Deadpool’ Installment
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EXCLUSIVE: Looks like everyone’s favorite wisecracking superhero is being joined in the MCU by some old friends as sources tell Deadline that Karan Soni and Leslie Uggams are joining star Ryan Reynolds in the next Deadpool sequel for Marvel.
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Soni and Uggams played respective fan favorites Dopinder and Blind Al in the first two installments of the blockbuster series. They join Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and the newest cast additions Emma Corrin and Matthew Macfadyen.
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Shawn Levy is on board to direct, with Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese returning to pen the script along with Zeb Wells. Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin wrote a previous draft. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will join Reynolds and Levy as producers.
This will mark the first Deadpool film in which Marvel Studios will work hand in hand with Reynolds and Team Deadpool. Feige’s involvement comes after he helped revamp the Spider-Man franchise when he came on to help in the creative effort for that Sony series.
As for Soni and Uggams, both are set to reprise their roles that fans of the franchise can’t get enough of. Soni’s plays the hero’s cab-driving sidekick, and Uggams is the smartass roommate who seems to be at the center of the movies’ best jokes.
Uggams is repped by BRS/Gage Agency, and Soni is repped by CAA and 3 Arts Entertainment.
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