Over the last couple of days, various movie blogs have been speculating over whether Fox was planning an X-Force spin-off from their X-Men movies, due to the fact they’ve registered the web address, ‘x-forcemovie.com’.
That’s now been confirmed by THR, with the added info that Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow is in talks to write and possibly direct the movie, with longtime X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner attached to oversee the project.
The comic book series was launched in the 1990s as a militant counterpart to the X-Men franchise. The original line-up included heroes such as Boom Boom, Cable, Cannonball, Deadpool, Domino, Feral, Shatterstar and Warpath, with later versions including Wolverine, Colossus, Psylocke, and Sunspot. As it’s early days, there’s no news on which mutants might appear, whether it’ll be an entirely new cast, or a mix of old and new.
X-Force comic book creator Rob Liefeld also confirmed the development on his Twitter page, saying, ‘Yup. Was informed in March RT @Graysonmm: @robertliefeld http://t.co/il1lbRtDud an X-Force movie?’
‘And by informed, I mean told that an X-Force film was in the planning stages. Much different than shooting a film.
‘When they cast an X-Force film then its reason to celebrate. They have a Magneto film in ‘development’ as well. Proceed with caution.’
‘Cross your fingers and hope for good things for X-Force. Being ON the radar is much better than not!’
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