Jeff Wadlow opens up on Fox’s once-planned X-Force movie with Deadpool [Video]

We know the Fox X-Men movies had many projects in development before Disney took over the brand, but did you know director Jeff Wadlow planned an X-Force movie?

Speaking with the A Trip To The Movies With Alex Zane podcast, Wadlow dives into his once-planned X-Force script and compares it to Red Dawn.

The filmmaker says, “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,” Wadlow continues. “I had our main villain hired, a mercenary, …