Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have been added to the Writers Guild of America credits for Avengers: Doomsday, a fresh change to the writing list for MCU films with the release now just over a month away. The database update puts both actors alongside the credited writers already attached to the script.
Deadpool and Wolverine credits
Stephen McFeely and Michael Waldron are credited on screen for the script, with Eric Pearson, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jeff Loveness, Andrew Lanham and Destin Daniel Cretton also officially recognized for contributions. Reynolds and Jackman now join that group, which shifts their role from teased participants to named contributors in the film’s writing record.
Reynolds showed up dressed as Deadpool at San Diego Comic-Con in July and said, “I asked to be in Avengers: Doomsday.” Jackman repeated the same line in a video at D23 in August. Those appearances set expectations that Deadpool and Wolverine would matter in Avengers: Doomsday, and the credit update gives that tease a formal paper trail.
Marvel Studios at two conventions
Marvel Studios had already spent two major conventions leaning into the pair’s return, so the credit change reads less like a surprise than a filing catching up with the promotion. The practical takeaway is simple: the film’s Deadpool and Wolverine material was enough to earn writing recognition, not just a marketing beat.
That matters because the story now carries a built-in contradiction: the same project that has been sold around Deadpool and Wolverine also leaves open how large their contribution really is. The database does not spell out which scenes or dialogue Reynolds and Jackman shaped, so the credit list answers who contributed, not how much of the film they touched.
Avengers: Doomsday opens on December 18, and this credit update is the clearest sign yet that Reynolds and Jackman are part of the movie’s creative architecture, not just its publicity push. For readers tracking MCU films, the useful question now is not whether they’re attached, but how much of the script carries their fingerprints.
