So Hey, Looks Like An X-Force Movie Is Being Made By Kick-Ass 2’s Screenwriter

If you weren’t seeing your favorite X-Men in the Wolverine spin-offs, the main X-Men continuity, or the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, don’t worry. You’re about to see an influx of mutants thanks to Fox picking up X-Force for a feature film. 

X-Force is another one of Marvel’s superhero teams, a spin-off from the X-Men if that wasn’t already clear, created by Rob Liefeld in the 90s. The original line-up featured Domino, Cable, Boom Boom, Warpath, Cannonball, Feral and Shatterstar and had more of a military, strike-force approach.

The Hollywood Reporters says Fox have hired Jeff Wadlow, writer/director of Kick-Ass 2, to write, and possibly direct, an X-Force adaptation as an X-Men spinoff. They write, “Wadlow also is writing an adaptation of Bloodshot, based on the Valiant comic, that is set up at Sony.”

The internet knew something was afoot when it was revealed Fox had registered the website domain X-ForceMovie.com. No word yet on which mutants would be utilized for the film (or if we’ll have a more solid continuity after Days of Future Past) but I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to snag Hugh Jackman. Personally, I’m hoping for X-23, Domino, and Psylocke.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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