With the Marvel film universe constantly expanding, from Iron Man to Guardians of the Galaxy to the rumored Ant Man film, the stable of popular Marvel comic book characters are prepped to make their film debuts within the next couple of years. Unfortunately, with the way Marvel films were structured, the comic book properties are split across numerous studios, i.e. Spider-Man with Sony, X-Men with Fox, and the bulk of the Avengers under Marvel Films. Because of this, it’s hard for a completely unified and cohesive film universe to exist without a ton of money being shuffled around for specific characters/franchises.
The rise of Marvel’s film success, let alone mainstream superhero films’, began with Fox’s X-Men in 2000. With the next entries in the franchise, The Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past, set to come out later this year and next, respectively, the X-Men universe is growing just as large as the core Marvel films, if not larger. Over the weekend, the expansion was teased and confirmed with the announcement of X-Force.
Already attached to the film is Kick-Ass 2‘s writer/director Jeff Wadlow as X-Force screenwriter… and possibly director. X-Force represents a darker, more mature spin on the X-Men series as the team has primarily represented a psuedo-black ops faction of the mutants willing to kill those who pose a threat to mutants. The film is still in the very, very early stages of production, so any inklings of which characters will be featured won’t be announced any time soon.
What do you think of a darker, possibly R-rated X-Men film?
[via Collider]