Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow was set to lead 20th Century Fox’s X-Force trilogy, but
Disney’s purchase of the company put all those plans on hold. Now, details of what could have been have been revealed.
As reported by Collider, CBM spoke to Wadlow about his X-Force project and he discussed how Tim Miller’s take on Deadpool and David Leitch’s Deadpool 2’s introduction of Cable made his original plans for X-Force irrelevant.
“What I can share about my take on the property (as it’s not really relevant any more since Deadpool 2 introduced Cable, and I wrote X-Force before Deadpool 1 even came out), is that it asked if X-Men was about mutants who get to go to private school with Wolverine and Professor X, and have the Blackbird swooping down to pick them up, what about the mutants that have to go to public school? What about the ones who don’t have the benefactor looking out for them, and what about the kids who have to figure it out on their own? We then would have introduced that darker, more militant mentor in the form of Cable.”
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CBM followed up by asking who Cable would be teaching.
“I plotted out this three-movie arc that took X-Force from what it was in the 90s with Rob Liefeld with a band of kids fighting for what they believe in, and then by the third film, the group would have grown and changed and lost and picked up some new members, and basically turned into Rick Remender’s version of the X-Force in the early 2000s. That was a much darker hit squad and black ops team who had lost their way over the course of the three films.”
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Liefeld’s team included Boom Boom, Cannonball, Domino (who appeared in Deadpool 2!), Feral, Shatterstar (Deadpool 2!), Warpath, and Siryn. In 2010, Remender and Jeremy Opena had a team with Wolverine, Psylocke, Deadpool, Archangel, Fantomex, and E.V.A.
Wadlow stated that he was “super grateful” to have written the script for the film, even if it has yet to move forward. However, he isn’t giving up hope.
“Kevin Feige, if you’re reading this, I will do anything at all to work on your version of the X-Men and X-Force,” Wadlow said. “I’m a filmmaker because of 90s comics, so I obviously love them dearly, and it was actually a dream come true for me to write X-Force and meet Rob Liefeld. I loved doing it and would of course do anything to be part of whatever new iteration they have planned.”
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For more on X-Force, check out our explainer feature on the militant mutant team, a breakdown of Deadpool’s X-Force teammates from Deadpool 2, and five reasons why an X-Force film could work.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
