"He would be the kind of person who doesn't want to explain himself, the kind of person who knows how to get out of any situation and the answer for any situation, and does not want to walk you through it - he's just going to do it and hope you follow along." Arnold Schwarzenegger would just want to take a nap," the writer says.
CABLE AND X FORCE MOVIE
"It would be like if you took every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie and assumed that that was the same person. (Most recently, Cable was on a mission to take out each of the Avengers one by one.)įor Hopeless, Cable seemed like a man who would just be exhausted by life. In developing the series, Hopeless went back and looked at the early 1990s Cable co-created by Rob Liefeld, and what he found was a man who had gone through "every sort of horrible crazy action situation you could imagine," he says. "Whatever Cable needs them to do," Hopeless says, "they're the best people for it and he can trust them to do it, and he's probably not going to explain much further than 'This is what I need you to do.' " Nemesis - running afoul of Havok and the Uncanny Avengers, setting the tone of the series and their new status quo as outlaws.Īrtist Salvador Larroca is the guy "putting visuals to my action-movie scripts," and Hopeless promises big guns, shoulder pads, explosions and Cable as Steve McQueen in the body of James Cameron's T2 Terminator, "this guy who's physically very imposing and very scary and very capable, has been through hell but all of the stuff just goes on in his own head."Īnd he has surrounded himself with a crew who may not be hitting the bar together after a mission but are all aces at their jobs.
There's a good reason why there's a lineup shot with "WANTED" on the cover of the first issue, though: Cable and X-Force opens with his mutant team - including Domino, Forge, Colossus and Dr. It's the first of two X-Force books that's part of the "Marvel NOW!" initiative, with Sam Humphries' Uncanny X-Force relaunching next month. The comic-book writer has recruited a diverse and well-armed squad - led by one of Marvel Comics' most bad mamma-jammas - for his new series Cable and X-Force. Dennis Hopeless is making good use of all those action movies and TV shows he watched as a kid with his dad in the 1980s.