Jennifer Garner will reportedly reprise her role as Marvel Comics’ Elektra for Deadpool 3.
On Friday The Hollywood Reporter claimed that the 51-year-old actress — whose lookalike daughter Violet Affleck shocked fans this week — will bring the character back after almost twenty years.
Production for the film is already underway, and Ryan Reynolds, 46, was seen shooting scenes in London this week.
Also reprising a role is 54-year-old Hugh Jackman, who will portray Wolverine once again.
Shawn Levy is helming the upcoming feature, which will star former Twentieth Century Fox characters for the first time since Disney acquired it in 2019, returning the rights to Marvel, according to the site.
Garner originally took on the role of Elektra, an anti-heroine assassin, in 2003’s Daredevil.
That movie also starred Garner’s ex-husband Ben Affleck as the Man Without Fear.
The film didn’t stick with audiences, but birthed a spinoff two years later, with Jennifer carrying the lead role.
It was not a box office hit, but was considered a big deal at the time, as the star was one of the first female actors to lead a comic book movie.
Jennifer’s casting in the third Deadpool installment gives reason to believe that the film will involve a multiverse perspective.
When she Jennifer embodied Elektra almost two decades ago, she was in the midst of her role as Sydney Bristow in ABC’s hit show Alias, which lasted from 2001-2006.
Most recently the mother-of-three has appeared in Netflix’s Yes Day (2021) and The Adam Project, which also starred Reynolds and was directed by Levy.
Jennifer also worked on Party Down, as well as Apple TV’s limited series The Last Thing He Told Me, which came out in April.
Garner is represented by CAA, Linden Entertainment, and Jason Sloane and Harris Hartman of Sloane Offer.
Kevin Feige, Levy and Reynolds will produce Deadpool 3, with a script by Reynolds, Levy, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese and Zeb Wells.
