Official X-Force Thread (Drew Goddard To Write And Direct)

[Dominic Brehetto]

Drew Goddard To Direct, Write ‘X-Force’ With Deadpool Leading Black Ops Force At Fox

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has set Drew Goddard to write and direct X-Force, the X-Men spinoff film that revolves around Deadpool and Cable leading a Black Ops force of down and dirty mutant warriors who are far more ruthless than their X-Men counterparts. Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds and Lauren Shuler Donner are producing. Goddard is next directing for Fox Bad Times at the El Royale with Chris Hemsworth and Jeff Bridges, but he has already cracked the script and will roll right into X-Force when he is finished.

Reynolds’ Deadpool will for sure be the centerpiece of X-Force, and when Kinberg discussed the property publicly, he added Cable as a major component. Josh Brolinis playing the character in Deadpool 2.

Getting Goddard is a coup for the studio. He has been destined to spearhead a superhero franchise for a long time. Aside from launching the Daredevil series for Netflix, Goddard wrote to direct The Martian, but stepped aside for Ridley Scott to instead direct his script for the Spider-Man villain spinoff The Sinister Six, until that film was scrapped for the new iteration of the webslinger. Now Goddard has his franchise.

While other studio superhero moves have gotten more attention lately, Fox under Emma Watts has continued to mine the X-Men universe, with strong up and coming directors. The Fault in Our Stars helmer Josh Boone has completed the spinoff X-Men: New Mutants for release April 13. David Leitch wrapped Deadpool 2for June 1, and the Kinberg-directed X-Men: Dark Phoenix gets released November 2.

Goddard is repped by UTA.

 

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Get Wolverine in this bytch and it's day one

 

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Goddard the God!!

 

[Norrin Radd]

'X-Force' Reportedly Still Moving Forward, Unaffected By Disney And Fox Deal

X-Force, the planned X-Men spinoff in the works from Fox, is still moving forward, according to DiscussingFilm.

Disney agreed to purchase 21st Century Fox's film and television assets in December for $52.4 billion.

Both companies expect the deal, which will integrate rented Fox properties the Fantastic Four, X-Men and Deadpool into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to take between 12 and 18 months.

Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the properties would be integrated into the Disney-owned MCU, saying the company isn't ruling out R-rated Marvel adaptations.


The X-Men franchise's most recent installments, Deadpool and Logan, both carried R ratings.

Fox enlisted The Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard for X-Force in September.

 

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[Norrin Radd]

Deadpool spin-off X-Force shooting later this year

The X-Men film franchise is expanding (the X-panded Universe, anyone?) with yet another spin-off going into production.

First up, there's Deadpool and its sequel, the horror-themed New Mutants and the TV shows Legion and Gifted... and now X-Force is totally happening too.

Production Weekly reports that the film will begin shooting in October, with both Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin returning as the Merc with a Mouth and his mate Cable, respectively.

The comics version of the X-Force flip-flop between a militant mutant team, and black ops offshoot of the X-Men, doing the jobs that would be a PR disaster for the main team.

Over the years, it's consisted of Psylocke, Colossus, Domino, Shatterstar (who had better be LGBTQ+ in Deadpool 2 or else), Wolfsbane, Danielle Moonstar, Archangel, X-23 and more.

Does that mean we'll see people like Olivia Munn, Ben Hardy, Stefan Kapiči, Zazie Beetz and Dafne Keen return? We'd say it's a fair bet that the actors from the Deadpool movies are a shoo-in, but the other stars played their characters in different continuities.

That was a joke. There is no continuity with this franchise.

X-Force will be executive produced by Ryan Reynolds, while Drew Goddard is stepping upfrom writing on the Deadpool sequel to directing the spin-off.

Deadpool 2 will be released on May 16 in the UK and on May 18 in the US.