Though Goddard is not sure if or when X-Force will happen, he describes it as subverting the teamup movie: “What Deadpool is to the superhero movie, X-Force can be to the team superhero movie.” In February, sources told THR Fox hoped the film would begin shooting this month, but that hasn’t been the case in light of the pending Fox/Disney merger. Goddard is also attached to write and direct X-Force, a Deadpool spinoff that would star Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin and Zazie Beetz. After getting to know creator Joss Whedon as a writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he penned the found-footage hit Cloverfield (2008), re-teamed with Whedon to co-write and direct the genre-bending Cabin in the Woods(2012), and earned an adapted screenplay Oscar nomination for Ridley Scott’s The Martian (2015). Damon, in turn, turned down the role – another missed opportunity that would go on to play in the favor of Sam Worthington as a career-saving role in the highest-grossing film of all time, Avatar.It’s those kinds of big bets that have made Goddard one of the most well-regarded minds in the genre space.

You can’t create a character if there’s nothing there.” Sam WorthingtonĪlso read: “It’s just a lot of noise”: Daniel Craig is Not Bothered About Henry Cavill Playing James Bond Next, RumorsĪt the same time, James Cameron was already halfway through realizing and manifesting his vision coming true and went out in search of a lead, who he would find in the Oscar-winner, Matt Damon. The job isn’t about trying to crack a formula. But I was just putting my head up my own butt. “Back then I used to do a lot of reflecting and research into careers. Of his experience at the 007 audition, Worthington recollected how he approached and what he took home from the entire process: Long before it became clear that Daniel Craig would be the embodiment and genre-defining James Bond ever to grace the literary character, he was in the running with a mass of actors of the likes of Sam Worthington, Henry Cavill, Christian Bale, and Hugh Jackman – all of them now A-listed leading men in Hollywood. The Lesson on Missed Opportunities For Sam Worthington

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