Hugh Jackman will be back as Wolverine in “Deadpool 3,” Ryan Reynolds reported on his social media Tuesday afternoon. “Deadpool 3” additionally has an official release date: Sept. 6, 2024.

“Hey everyone, we’re extremely sad to have missed D23, but we’ve been working very hard on the next ‘Deadpool’ film for a good long while now,” Reynolds says in the video, referencing the D23 Expo in early September. “I’ve had to really search my soul on this one. His first appearance in the MCU obviously needs to feel special. We need to stay true to the character, find new depth, motivation, meaning. Every ‘Deadpool’ needs to stand out and stand apart. It’s been an incredible challenge that has forced me to reach down deep inside. And I…I have nothing. Yeah, just completely empty up here. And terrifying. But we did have one idea.”

“Hey, Hugh, you want to play Wolverine one more time?” Reynolds asks as Jackman walks by in the background.

“Yeah, sure, Ryan,” Jackman replies. The video ends with Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” — subtitled as “I will always love Hugh” — and a “Coming Hughn” teaser. The Deadpool logo shows up, then, at that point, is immediately sliced up by Wolverine’s adamantium claws.

Shawn Levy, who made “Free Guy” and “The Adam Project” with Reynolds, is directing “Deadpool 3,” which will formally join the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Disney’s purchase of twentieth Century Fox. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote the first two “Deadpool” films, got back to compose the third. Reese has recently affirmed that “Deadpool 3” will remain R-rated, even within the family-friendly MCU.

The last time X-Men fans saw Jackman as Wolverine was in 2016’s R-rated “Logan,” directed by James Mangold. Wolverine broadly died in toward the finish of the film, and Jackman has stated repeatedly that the film was his swan song in the role. So it’s unclear the way that he’ll show up in “Deadpool 3.” However the character is most popular for repeatedly breaking the fourth wall — on film and in the comics — and as Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige recently told, “Anything’s possible in the multiverse.”

Reynolds and Jackman have a long superhero history together. The “Deadpool” star originally showed up as the character in 2009’s generally panned “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which was the first “X-Men” spinoff to focus on Jackman’s character. That version of Deadpool, in any case, had his mouth sewn shut and didn’t feature his notorious red-and-black costume. Several years later, Reynolds got another go-round as the wise-cracking assassin in an appropriate, R-rated “Deadpool” film.

The “Deadpool” films are the top-grossing “X-Men” titles of all time, each procuring more than $780 million around the world. The first two movies, which appeared in 2016 and 2018, respectively, were released by twentieth Century Fox before Disney obtained the studio.