Jeff Wadlow, who is readying for the Aug. 16 release of Kick-Ass 2, has been tapped to write an adaptation of X-Force, an X-Men spinoff being developed by 20th Century Fox.


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The news comes on the heels of various blogs reporting Friday that the studio registered X-ForceMovie.com a few months ago.

Longtime X-Men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner is producing X-Force.
Wadlow is writing with an eye to direct.
X-Force, created by Rob Liefeld, was a spinoff from Marvel Comics flagship Uncanny X-Men released in 1991. Its first issue set records when it sold 5 million copies. (The record was surpassed later that year when X-Men No. 1, drawn by Jim Lee, sold 8 million issues.)

The original lineup of the team comprised several characters from the first Uncanny X-Men spinoff, The New Mutants, teens who had matured into young adults. Also in the lineup was Cable, a militant leader from the future who is related to X-Men heroes Cyclops and Jean Grey. His body is enhanced by robotic parts, and he has telekinetic powers as well.
X-Force has been rebooted a couple of times in the past decade, and there are now two comics in the marketplace: Uncanny X-Force and Cable and X-Force.
Wadlow wrote and directed Kick-Ass 2, the sequel to the violent and funny 2010 hit based on the comic books by Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr. He also recently wrote two episodes of A&E’s hit show Bates Motel.
Wadlow also is writing an adaptation of Bloodshot, based on the Valiant comic, that is set up at Sony.
He is repped by WME and Hirsch Wallerstein.

SilverHeart wrote:

Jeff Wadlow

SilverHeart wrote:Ryan Reynolds was actually asked about it and he said he had no idea who the X-Force were. And he's a giant Deadpool fan.

Plus Fox is already trying to get Deadpool running as it's own movie, the script leaked a while back and can still be downloaded.

SilverHeart wrote:Well this is absolutely going to happen now.