Have you ever wanted to see James Bond kicking ass in a superhero movie? Deadpool 2 might make it happen.

The latest rumours on social media have Bond legend Pierce Brosnan in the mix to play time-travelling mutant Nathan Summers (aka Cable) in the upcoming Deadpool sequel.

All of the chatter is because of the pictures below, which reveal Pierce along with Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman and Deadpool himself Ryan Reynolds goofing off at a secret meeting:

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Notice their 'hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil' poses? Are they hiding a big X-Men-sized secret from all of us?

There's nothing official from 20th Century Fox about Pierce actually being lined up to play Cable in Deadpool 2 just yet, but it's a pretty cool rumour right?

For those not in the loop, Cable is the time-travelling son of X-Man Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor who journeys back into his own past to save mutantkind from the brink of destruction.

Except, it looks like you won't see much of that cool (if convoluted) backstory in Deadpool 2 - at least according to co-writer Paul Wernick.

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"So with Cable, he's got such a convoluted past, and such a convoluted origin story that I think we're going to try to leave that, not mysterious, but there are a lot of twists and turns, cloning and all this stuff where you go, 'Oh my God. How do we get that across in a two-hour movie?'" Wernick recently teased.

"I think we're going to distill him down to his essence. It will be authentic and faithful, but it's not going to include the 18,000 details if you were going to read a Wikipedia page about Cable, you'd roll your eyes."

In the past, Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler and Hellboy actor Ron Perlman have both been tipped as contenders to bring Cable to the big screen.

In addition to introducing Cable into the X-Men film universe, Deadpool will definitely be bringing back at least three fan-favourite sidekicks - Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and cab driver Dopinder (Karan Soni).

Deadpool 2 is expected to hit cinemas in the US and the UK in 2018.

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