Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow revealed his original 2013 plans for Fox's X-Force movie. During an interview with A Trip to the Movies with Alex Zane podcast, the filmmaker talked about how th emovie was set to reintroduced Deadpool.
Speaking to the host, Wadlow said: "I was lucky enough to write an X-Force script for Fox before the original Deadpool film was made. He'd been in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and, as a comic book fan, I knew that was a travesty. That was a total abomination. I wanted to get it right."
The filmmaker continued by revealing how the X-Force movie was set to introduce Deadpool and Cable in a chase film featuring younger mutants like Cannon-Ball and a younger Domino. "My pitch for the movie was, 'If X-Men is about mutants that get to go to private school, what about the mutants that get to go to public school?' I wrote this movie that was very much inspired by the original X-Men run back in the '90s," Wadlow said. "I introduced Cable as this dark mentor for our characters. It was definitely about the young mutants formerly known as the New Mutants. In my movie, it was Cannonball, Boom-Boom, and I aged Domino down. Rictor was there. Feral was there. I put them on this road movie. I modeled it after Red Dawn. They were on the run in West Texas."
Wadlow also shared how he met with current Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds at the time he was developing the script for X-Force. Had Reynolds accepted the role three years before his blockbuster solo film in 2016, comic book fans would have seen Deadpool depicted closer to his early appearances in the comic books.
“I wanted this antagonist chasing them the whole time. Deadpool was introduced as a villain in the original X-Force run, so I had our main villain hire a mercenary to hire this group of ragtag villains down and the mercenary hired was Deadpool,” Wadlow explained. “He was in motorcycle leathers with this red ballistic face mask. I made it very clear he was going to look just like he did in the comic books.”
Is Josh Brolin returning as Cable in Deadpool & Wolverine?
When the first trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine dropped last month, Marvel fans were wondering if Josh Brolin's Cable will return in the highly-anticipated threequel.
Speaking to Collider, Brolin talked about his absence in the trailer. "No. I don't know. Because Ryan [Reynolds] doesn't like me?," the 56-year-old actor said. "I don't think that's the reason. I don't know. Maybe." The Cable actor has recently been busy on Dune: Part Two press tour. While his role as Thanos has been defeated in Avengers: Endgame, fans are wondering if he will return as the big bad villain considering that the possibility of a multiverse could make it happen.
The Deadpool & Wolverine trailer included many nods to the two previous Deadpool films as we get to see characters who interacted with Wade Wilson in his past cinematic adventures present in the room for his birthday party, so why can't they bring Cable back? The trailer already confirmed the return of Aaron Stanford's Pyro and a surprising return of an X-Force member. Of course, we can expect bigger surprises in the movie, so it's likely that we'll see cameos from Fox's X-Men movies that the trailer didn't reveal.
The Shawn Levy-directed Deadpool & Wolverine movie is scheduled to hit theaters on July 26, 2024.
