Warning: SPOILERS for Deadpool & Wolverine are ahead! Iron Man was the first of the Marvel movies in order , and while Robert Downey Jr . rightly gets a lot of credit for its success and helping to launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008, Jon Favreau also played a big role in the production as its director. While Favreau only helmed one of MCU installment after that, Iron Man 2 , he’s continued to contribute to the franchise by playing Happy Hogan, who turned out to be one of the big cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine .
As we come up on two weeks since the threequel’s arrival on the 2 024 movies schedule , Ryan Reynolds penned a tribute to Favreau following his brief Deadpool 3 appearance. The Wade Wilson actor took to his social media accounts, including Instagram , to share some official photos of his and Favreau’s scene together in Deadpool & Wolverine , as well as a behind-the-scenes picture of the two of them with director Shawn Levy , Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios co-president Louis D’Esposito. He heaped a lot of praise on the Elf and Chef filmmaker in the post’s caption, which you can read below: A post shared by Ryan Reynolds (@vancityreynolds) A photo posted by on Happy Hogan got looped into the Deadpool & Wolverine proceedings when in 2018, after using Cable’s time travel device to undo Vanessa’s death and make various other changes to Earth-10005’s timeline (as seen in Deadpool 2 ), Wade somehow made his way over to Earth-.