Years ago, before the first “Deadpool” hit cinemas and shortly after the success of “X-Men: First Class,” director Jeff Wadlow (“Kick-Ass 2”) was attached to “X-Force” film in the works at 20th Century Fox.
The project languished in development for years, ultimately moving to the backburner and then after “Deadpool” hit it was seemingly going to be re-conceived before ultimately being abandoned once Disney took over Fox.
Wadlow, out doing promotional rounds for “Fantasy Island,” recently spoke with ComicBookMovie.com about his plans for what aimed to be a trilogy of “X-Force” films. With that version now definitively gone, Wadlow is happy to open up about what his iteration could have looked like:
“[My take] 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.
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.”
There is still no firm plan in place at for what Disney intends to do with the Marvel properties it inherited. In any case, Wadlow is happily putting up his hand to be back in the mix and tells the outlet: “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.”
