'Deadpool' sidekick Cable role goes to ... a guy already in Marvel movies?
There's little chance that Cable, a major character in the Deadpool and X-Men corner of the Marvel comic-book-movie world over at Fox, would ever cross paths with Thanos, the big bad guy from the Marvel Cinematic Universe at Disney.
But if they did, it just might tear the space-time continuum. Permanently.
That's because Josh Brolin, who's already played the gorilla-sized purple villain from Titan in multiple Disney Marvel films, has apparently won the role of Cable, Mashable has confirmed. Cable is a Deadpool companion of sorts -- definitely don't call him a sidekick -- with an origin story so loopy and time-bending that we'll just let someone else explain it.
Grizzled, world-weary and heavily armed (pun intended here), Cable is a perfect foil for the Merc with the Mouth as a serious, lantern-jawed, no-nonsense older fella with attitude. Though he's probably spent more of his comic-books life apart from Deadpool, their four-year run together in Cable & Deadpool made their pairing too popular to pass up in the movies.
Brolin beat out rumored contenders Michael Shannon and David Harbor (the sheriff in Stranger Things), and has signed a four-film contract to play the beefcake mutant with a taste for heavy artillery, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news Wednesday. Fox had no comment, but a source close to the production confirmed the news.
The Deadpool sequel is due in theaters sometime next year.
Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
