Details have emerged for the next outing from the X-Men/Deadpool franchise, X-Force that include a couple of big casting names and a production start as well as a brief plot outline.

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First up is the news that the project could be landing sooner than we expected, according to Production Weekly, filming for the spin-off is due to commence in October 2018.

Plot details read as; The X-Men spinoff film X-Force will revolve around Deadpool and Cable leading a Black Ops force of down and dirty mutant warriors who are far more ruthless than their X-Men counterparts.

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Casting news is minimal but it appears that both Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin will reprise their roles as Deadpool and Cable. No other casting details have been released but there looks to be scope that both Domino and Colossus will also be part of the story.

The Cabin in the Woods and The Good Place director, Drew Goddard will take the helm as well as penning the script. Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds and Lauren Shuler Donner will serve as producers.

Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld for the Marvel Comics, the X-Force emerged after Cable travelled to the present to seek to change his apocalyptic time, he took the New Mutants under his wing and restructured them as X-Force, a mutant strike team that would take a more proactive stance against threats to mutantkind. Originally it consisted of the rocket-propelled Cannonball, the plasma-generating Boom-Boom, the super-strong Warpath, the gladiator warrior Shatterstar, the cat-like Feral, and the mercenary Domino, X-Force initially fought the Mutant Liberation Front (M.L.F.) and their leader, the armoured despot Stryfe, a clone of Cable.

Deadpool 2 is currently undergoing reshoots and is scheduled for release in UK cinemas & IMAX May 16.