Marvel can keep its secrets locked in a vault, make actors read fake scripts and threaten everybody with an NDA the size of a phone book. And then the Writers Guild directory just goes and tells on everybody.

Eagle-eyed fans digging through the Writers Guild of America’s “Find a Writer” database spotted the screenwriting credits for Avengers: Doomsday, and, as Variety reports, two of the ten names on the list are Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. Yes, those two. The guy in the red suit and the guy who keeps saying he’s done playing Wolverine and then not being done playing Wolverine.

What the credits actually say

Here’s how it shakes out, per Variety:

• The main feature writing credit goes to Marvel veteran Stephen McFeely and Michael Waldron (the Loki creator who also wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness).
• A credit for “additional literary material” goes to ten people: McFeely, Waldron, Eric Pearson, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jeff Loveness, Andrew Lanham, Destin Daniel Cretton, Reynolds and Jackman.

That second category is the interesting one. The WGA describes additional literary material as a credit for Guild-contracted writers “who contributed writing services to a theatrical feature but did not qualify for a traditional primary writing credit.” In plain English, you wrote some stuff that made it into the process, but you’re not one of the main screenwriters.

Reynolds has done this before. He’s a writer on Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine. For Jackman, Variety notes this is his first writing credit ever. Which makes you wonder what, exactly, Logan was in the room scribbling. Grumpy one-liners? A single, perfectly delivered “bub”? I need to know.

So, are Deadpool and Wolverine in Doomsday?

Officially? Nobody’s said. Variety reached out to Marvel and to reps for both actors. The trade’s read is that the credits “certainly seem like they would be for writing dialogue for their ‘X-Men’ characters,” but that it’s “unclear if or how much they would appear.”

Reynolds, being Reynolds, responded with exactly zero words and one cryptic X post: a video clip from Deadpool & Wolverine. Very helpful, Ryan. Thanks.

And because it’s the internet and someone has to be the adult in the room, a word of caution: the WGA directory itself carries a disclaimer that some of its data is self-reported by writers and isn’t independently verified. So this isn’t Marvel putting the two of them on a poster. It’s a database listing. A very, very loud database listing.

I’m not going to pretend I know who shows up in this movie. Nobody here has seen it, and I’d rather not be the guy who swore Deadpool was in the trailer and was actually looking at a red couch.

How we got here

Quick refresher, because the road to Doomsday has more potholes than a Jersey turnpike. The movie was originally The Kang Dynasty, with Cretton set to direct and Loveness writing. Then Marvel fired Kang actor Jonathan Majors and reworked the whole thing. Cretton stepped away (he’s now directing Spider-Man: Brand New Day), and the Russo Brothers came aboard with McFeely, McKenna, Sommers and Waldron, shifting the focus to Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.

That’s why you see so many names on the list. This script has been through the wringer.

Why this one’s fun

Look, Marvel’s own official Doomsday watch list kicks off with Fox’s old X-Men movies, so the mutants are clearly in the soup somewhere. If Reynolds and Jackman really did write dialogue for this, it’s hard to imagine it’s for anyone other than the two characters they’ve been playing for years. Deadpool breaking the fourth wall in the middle of a Doctor Doom movie? Wolverine growling at the Avengers? That’s either the best thing in the movie or the most chaotic thing in the movie, and honestly, why not both?

Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters December 18. If you want to catch up on the duo in the meantime, Deadpool & Wolverine is out on 4K:

Deadpool & Wolverine (4K + Blu-ray + Digital)

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Watch the official Avengers: Doomsday trailer:

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Sources:
– Variety, “‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Lists Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Among 10 Writers” (Nov 12, 2026): https://variety.com/2026/film/news/avengers-doomsday-ryan-reynolds-hugh-jackman-writers-1236946441/
– Marvel Entertainment, official Avengers: Doomsday trailer (release date Dec 18): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVNGjRFZGk