Deadpool director Tim Miller, Ryan Reynolds and the creative team will be back for Deadpool 2 but how about Cable?
In the first film’s post-credit sequence, Wade Wilson teased the cyborg mutant would appear in the sequel.
Cable (Nathan Summers) is the son of Cyclops. The mutant (telekinetic) was infected by what was called a “techno-organic” virus as a child, taken into the future to be saved. Nathan grew up in a world ruled by Apocalypse. When we first met Nathan and Wade, Cable was leading New Mutants (which would evolve into X-Force) and Deadpool was hired to track Cable.
Later on, Deadpool and Cable shared a team-up book together.
Who could play Cable?
Miller told Collider he’s not even thinking about casting and won’t know what kind of Cable they have until the script informs the character. There have been different approaches to the hero in comics and they won’t move until they know which version they’re adapting.
The smashing success of the R-rated Deadpool could mean a R-Rated X-Force film. Miller sounded off on the possible R-rated X-Men spinoff.
““I’ll just say I’d like it to be an R-rated movie, but I’ve always been very realistic. We’re not making fine art here. This is commerce. So if for some reason there was a story that needed to be bigger and needed to be at a certain budget, and it didn’t warrant an R-rated budget, although it’s harder to make that argument now after Deadpool, but let’s say we were saying it before Deadpool came out; I understand that. I’m not one of those directors who goes ‘I want it because I want it!’ and ‘It should be because I think it should be!’ There’s economics at work here, and I would like it to be R-rated.” Miller told Collider.
“And I know there was some talk around Hollywood, and James Gunn talked about it, and I agree very much with what he said. I think Deadpool worked because of what it was. I think Deadpool worked because it was funny. I think Deadpool worked because it didn’t take itself seriously. That’s why it worked as an R-rated film. I’m not sure any superhero movie will work as an R-rated film. I’m not sure some members of the public are going to be happy with the blood and gore if it’s not balanced with humor and the other stuff.”
Miller would not comment on the future of Vanessa. In the comics Vanessa turned out to be a shapeshifting mutant code-named Copycat who was impersonating the mercenary Domino, who was in Cable’s first version of X-Force.
Deadpool started out as an enemy of the original X-Force. In a later version of X-Force, Wolverine recruited Wade to join his team’s mission to stop the resurrection of Apocalypse. Could Miller combine members of different versions to create a super-sized roster for a X-Force film?
By Editor