PEOPLE breaks down the movies to see (and where to stream them) ahead of the July 26 release of 'Deadpool & Wolverine'
Deadpool & Wolverine has had quite the lead-up.
Starting with the appearance of Hugh Jackman's Logan/Wolverine in 2000's X-Men, the compelling, heart-wrenching (and, in Deadpool's case, hilarious) stories of both characters have been told onscreen with gusto over the past 24 years, to much acclaim and success.
And while it wasn't until 2016 that Ryan Reynolds' Wade Wilson/Deadpool got his own movie, the superhero jokester first appeared on the big screen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
Walking on set of the latter for the first time in 2008, “I was blown away. And I was nervous as hell,” Reynolds, 47, told PEOPLE in May. “I was walking through the trailers, jet-lagged, disoriented, feeling really green and kind of out of my depth, and there was no script to look at. It was just like, what's going to happen?”
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He continued of Jackman, 55, "I heard my name, ‘Ryan!’ in between these trailers as I was walking. And it was you. Just the fact that you knew my name meant so much to me. And you came over, you gave me a big hug and you said, ‘Welcome aboard.’ ”
Read on for where to watch all the Deadpool and X-Men/Wolverine movies, before seeing Deadpool & Wolverine in theaters beginning Friday, July 26.
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