It took months of searching, but when director David Leitch finally cast Josh Brolin as Cable in the upcoming Deadpool sequel, fans breathed a collective sigh of relief. Josh Brolin is not only a talented, Oscar-nominated actor but he looks suspiciously like the cyborg X-Man from the future, almost as though he popped right out of the comic book pages to co-star in Deadpool 2.
Today, we’re even more convinced that Josh Brolin was born to play Cable… or at least to cosplay as him. Ryan Reynolds tweeted not one, but two high-quality photographs of Josh Brolin in costume, in character, with the trademark glowing eye, and DAMN if he doesn’t look just like Cable. And since Brolin is an accomplished thespian, it seems pretty likely that Deadpool 2 is on the right track.
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Cable is, of course, the son of Cyclops and Jean Grey, who was infected with the techno-organic virus and sent to live in the distant future, where Cyclops and Jean Grey possessed the bodies of random people and raised Cable as their own for many years before going back in time and finishing out their honeymoon. Many years later, Cable would return to the present day to turn the idealistic New Mutants into X-Force, a militant offshoot of the X-Men who eventually fight Cable’s clone, Strife, who… you know what? It’s complicated. It’s just really, really complicated.
The dead serious Cable became the perfect comic foil for Deadpool when, after the cancellation of their solo comics, they teamed up for Deadpool & Cable in 2004. The comic’s celebrated run lasted 50 issues, and helped make Deadpool one of Marvel’s most popular characters, and kept Cable relevant many years after his extremely 1990s origin would have normally made him fade into nostalgia and/or obscurity.
We’ll see if that comedy chemistry translates to the big screen when Deadpool 2 arrives in theaters on June 1, 2018.
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The 20 Best Superhero Movie Posters
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The 20 Best Superhero Movie Posters
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3 Dev Adam
Also known as That Turkish Ripoff Film Where Captain America and El Santo Team Up to Fight Evil Spider-Man. The film is at least 70 times more spectacular than anything cooked up by Disney, and this poster reflects that.
Image: Tual Film Arsel
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Ant Man
To assure viewers that Ant-Man was tied in the The Avengers series, the marketers released a series of posters showing our tiny, tiny hero to scale with his future teammates.
Image: Disney
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Batman (1966)
Camp was the word of the day in 1966, and this is still perhaps the most enjoyable Batman film of them all.
Image: 20th Century Fox
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Batman (1989)
It may be difficult to describe just how huge Tim Burton's 1989 film really was back in the day. To tease us, the posters only displayed the Batman logo.
Image: Warner Bros.
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
In its own personal continuity, the animated Batman feature had an appropriately stylized poster.
Image: Warner Bros.
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Batman Returns
While there have been numerous iterations of Catwoman over the years, this single image has become the defining image of the character in the minds of many.
Image: Warner Bros.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Although the film has been largely panned, it cannot be denied that these street art renditions of the two title heroes are pretty cool.
Image: Warner Bros.
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Darkman
Sam Raimi's over-the-top vigilante movie came from the era of hand-painted posters, when they all looked way cooler.
Image: Universal
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Deadpool
The snarky, self-aware superhero comedy film faked you out with these Nicholas Sparks-inspired romance posters. Surprise! It's an R-rated comedy!
Image: 20th Century Fox
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
The best thing about Ghost Rider is the way he looks like a living tattoo. This poster highlights that to an amazing degree.
Image: Columbia
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Although it is just a few glory shots of the team, a graphic designer thought to add some color. It certainly catches the eye.
Image: Disney
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Hellboy
This poster, painted by the legendary Drew Struzan, wasn't used in the U.S. Our loss, I suppose.
Image: Columbia
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Mystery Men
One of the funniest of all superhero movies, the clever Mystery Men took not-too-impressive superheroes (like The Shoveler and The Spleen) and made them look epic.
Image: Universal
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Spider-Man 3
Non-fans see a moral conflict. Fans see a glimpse of an evil alien blob that takes the form of a costume. Either way, good choice.
Image: 20th Century Fox
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Supergirl
Often jeered, this goofy Superman spinoff has a poster that outdoes most of its peers.
Image: TriStar Pictures
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Superman III
This hand-painted poster was only used in international markets, but the images and the colors translate all over the world.
Image: Warner Bros.
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The Amazing Spider-Man
No one asked for this reboot, but this image did lend an air of mystery to a story we already knew from a few years before.
Image: 20th Century Fox
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The Dark Knight
The kid gloves are off, and buildings got blowed up. The image became iconic. Question: Did Batman burn that building in a bat shape, or did the Joker do it to discredit Batman? I always saw it as the latter.
Image: Warner Bros.
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The Shadow
I loved how shiny and glossy blockbuster posters were in the '80s and '90s. This image became a logo for the film, and the colors are still unique to this day.
Image: Universal
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men 7 was when they started to mess around with alternate timelines in earnest, and the posters let us see the overlap.
Image: 20th Century Fox
