By At one point before its acquisition by Disney, 20th Century Fox was considering multiple projects using its Marvel characters – building a mini Marvel franchise of their own not unlike what Sony has done with its “Venom,” “Morbius” and “Madame Web” films.
Amongst the various titles were the Channing Tatum-led “Gambit” film which went through multiple iterations, a film following Dafne Keen’s X-23 character from “Logan,” and “X-Force” which had “Kick-Ass 2” director Jeff Wadlow attached.
Wadlow recently spoke with A Trip To The Movies With Alex Zane podcast (via The Playlist) and confirmed he wrote an “X-Force” script – one which was done before the first “Deadpool” film premiered.
Making a comparison to “Red Dawn,” Wadlow explains what his take on the film would’ve been about:
“I put them on this sort of road movie I modeled the movie a little bit after ‘Red Dawn’ the movie from the ’80s with Patrick Swayze.
They were doing these mutant internment camps, which was an analog to the Japanese internment camps that happened during WWII. But they’re on the run in West Texas, and that was the vibe of the film.
I wanted this antagonist chasing them the whole time and what most people know Deadpool was introduced as a villain in the original ‘X-Force’ run. I had our main villain hired, a mercenary, to hunt this ragtag group of mutants down, and the mercenary hired was Deadpool.
And I said he’s in these motorcycle leathers with a red ballistic facemask, and I made it clear he’d look just like does in the comics…and he was the ‘Merc With A Mouth.’”
He goes on to add that he wanted Ryan Reynolds to play the Deadpool part in the film:
“I think the studio after ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine,’ there was a lot of uncertainty about where the X properties were going, but through my agency, I got in touch with Ryan.
I got him the script, and he read it, and he loved it. He said, ‘It’s like this grand cameo for Deadpool’ he’s in a lot of the movie, but it’s definitely a supporting part. He’s almost like Tommy Lee Jones in ‘The Fugitive’ chasing these characters…ultimately they turn him in the end.”
That incarnation of “X-Force” is dead and buried with Marvel Studios turning its attention toward the “Deadpool & Wolverine” film due out in July.
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