Cable Discussion - How Might Marvel Entertainment seperate him from the X-Franchise

[Tobias March]

Marvel Entertainment recently announced a list of future products.

Among them was a movie about Cable.

Seeing as Fox managed to fit every other X-character into the X-Men films, ensuring plenty of spin-off potential etc., I was curious as to how Marvel would make use of this character whose history is so heavily bound up with the X-Men.

Conveniently enough his daddy and mommy in the X-Men films have both been prematurely killed, so it was unlikely Fox were about to make a film about him. This provided Marvel Entertainment with the opportunity to jump on the property. Reminds me a little of the 'Captain Marvel', farrago actually.

Anyway.

How might Marvel be intending to streamline this project for their 'shared movie universe'. I would imagine Fox have been unable to copyright the idea of mutant superheroes for their films (although you never know)....but it would seem unlikely that Marvel will introduce the concept for their Avengers franchise. Will the Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver feature? Probably not, or if they do, with altered abilities (and certainly no Magneto daddy issues, thank frick....hey maybe we'll see poor neglected Whizzer in a film!)

Cable is a time-traveller with a gun. So far, very much a Terminator knock-off. Would Marvel risk a litigious McG? I wonders, they let this (http://www.scifiscoop.com/news/the-terminators/)pass.

Or maybe he's a militaristic version of Doctor Who?

http://www.lovingwho.com/DWMissues/Magazine500s/issueabslom.jpg

Hmm. Someone got there first too...

What are they thinking?

[sneggz]

In the future, he's a freedom fighter against the oppressive Lord Apocalypse maybe?

[Jared]

I wonder if Apocalypse was included in the package with the X characters.

However they have to change his origin to make it work, it can't be any more convoluted than the actual comics. Though without the X connection, I don't see the point of doing anything with the character. He can't even appear with Deadpool, unless Marvel Studios makes another deal with Fox.

Of course, I can't see much sense in making a Cable movie at all, regardless of character rights.

[Infernorhythm]

In the future, he's a freedom fighter against the oppressive Lord Apocalypse maybe?

That could work. I could see a Cable movie done in a kind of Twelve Monkeys style time travel film, a bit less surreal, but a very much change the past sort of thing.

Of course, it would work better if they went with the dark messiah approach of recent years and not the "big guns and big pouches" 90s approach.

[Tobias March]

That could work. I could see a Cable movie done in a kind of Twelve Monkeys style time travel film, a bit less surreal, but a very much change the past sort of thing.

Of course, it would work better if they went with the dark messiah approach of recent years and not the "big guns and big pouches" 90s approach.

A movie about a messianic time traveller seeking to avoid a future carved up by religious wars (Askani versus Apocalypse etc.) would be interesting...but far too much of Cable's conception is derivative of other franchises, such as Terminator. Absent his mutant nature, he's something of an ersatz Arnold Schwarznegger.

[Pól Rua]

I remember this film when it was called 'Terminator 2'.

[Agent Helix]

Cable is awful. Can we please just not have a movie about him?

Or Deadpool, who is also awful, for that matter.