We’ve known for some time that 20th Century Fox plans to capitalise on its Marvel movie rights, with Mark Millar being brought to serve as a Joss Whedon-esque creative consultant for a cohesive universe, Bryan Singer uniting the two X-Men timelines with next year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Chronicle helmer Josh Trank overseeing The Fantastic Four for release in 2015.
Now we can add another X-Movie to that list, with The Hollywood Reporter confirming the recent rumours about a planned X-Force adaptation. Furthermore, the site has revealed that Jeff Wadlow has signed on to pen the screenplay for an adaptation of the 1990s spin-off comic, which centres on a more aggressive mutant team with a roster that has included the likes of Cable, Deadpool and Wolverine. Wadlow has recently cut his teeth in the superhero genre writing and directing the upcoming sequel Kick-Ass 2 for Universal, and it’s said that he’s also looking to direct X-Force.
Talk of an X-Force movie first surfaced on Thursday when it emerged that the studio had registered the domain X-ForceMovie.com, suggesting that a feature was already in development. Bleeding Cool subsequently ‘confirmed’ this to be the case, reporting that Fox will use its Hall H presentation at Comic-Con next Saturday to announce plans for an extended X-Men movie universe. Will this be limited solely to X-Force? We’ll just have to wait and see..
Originally published July 12, 2013. Updated December 13, 2019.
