Is Fox planning an X-Force Movie?

20th Century Fox, in appraising the superhero movie landscape, may be embracing the concept that if other studios are going to go one superhero per movie in order to build a team, Fox has the power to introduce entire teams right off the bat.  The X-Men movies have continued to pile in more and more mutants, and now that it’s bursting at the seams with Bryan Singer‘s upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, the studio may be close to moving into the secondary teams.  One such team is X-FORCE, (originally) a team of younger, aggressive, and rebellious mutant kids who banded themselves as a paramilitary mutant team whose aspirations may be similar to the X-Men, but their means to achieving an end are completely different. If Fox plans to take on X-Force, the announcement may come at their Comic-Con panel this July. [full article after the jump]

There had been talks that Fox plans to announce an expanded X-Men universe during the studio’s Comic-Con panel on July 20th.  X-Men Days of Future Past will be there, and it would be a good launching point especially when you consider how many mutants are in the movie. If the universe does expand, it could lead off with X-Force, created by Rob Liefeld.  X-MenFilms.com has learned that Fox registered x-forcemovie.com, although there’s currently nothing there at the moment.

Replying to fans on Twitter, X-Force creator Rob Liefeld made it clear that the movie was only at the planning stages, but already that’s something. Plus, Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2) has been tapped to pen the X-Force script with a possibility of boarding as director. That makes the project look like it is indeed marked to be made.

In the comics, the world of mutants goes far beyond the X-Men and their enemies.  There are other teams of good mutants to the point where going through all of the X-books became a burden due to their numerous crossovers.  In addition to the X-Men, you also have X-Force, X-Factor, X-Terminators, Excalibur, Generation X, and New Mutants. The X-Force began as a paramilitary group of rebellious kids, whose allegiance is towards the good guys (Professor X and the X-Men). The group was a new incarnation of the 1980s team, the New Mutants. Led by the mutant Cable, X-Force was more militant and aggressive than the X-Men.