Deadpool 3 Will Have Jennifer Garner As Elektra
A bit of cast news has leaked out of the set for Deadpool 3, which is filming now. THR caught wind that they convinced actress Jennifer Garner to dig her sais out of storage and re-become the assassin Elektra Natchios, first seen in the 2003 movie Daredevil before getting her own spinoff two years later. A lot of people are puzzled by this, but you have to remember what franchise we’re talking about. Given how the previous Deadpool movies were set up, I feel there’s a bit of in-movie context we’re missing here. Jennifer Garner as Elektra makes no sense, so it’s clearly a gag, but for what purpose? I never saw Elektra, mainly because I did see Daredevil and found it kind of blah. The Daredevil in that film is a clumsy take on a “flawed hero” who sometimes kills the guys he knows are guilty. Eventually he realizes “am I the bad guy?” and mopes on a rooftop. Then he meets Elektra, and there’s the required “boy, your