According to "Cable" and "Deadpool" creator Rob Liefeld, 20th Century Fox, home of Marvel's "X-Men" movie mutants purchased a screenplay based on Marvel Comics' "X-Force", with producer Lauren Shuller Donner targeting a 2018 feature film release:
Conceived by writer/illustrator Liefeld, the superhero mutant team, "...more militant than 'X-Men'", debuted in Marvel Comics' "New Mutants" #100 (April 1991).
The characters then received their own series, incarnating the 1980's superhero team, the 'New Mutants', led by 'Cable'.
The main opponents of X-Force were the terrorist 'Mutant Liberation Front', led by 'Stryfe', a masked mutant with a mysterious link to Cable.
Also featured was wise-cracking mercenary 'Deadpool', the 'Externals' and a new version of the 'Brotherhood of Mutants'.
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