X-Force Movie Will Begin After Bad Times at the El Royale Is Done

Drew Goddard will turn his attention to the Deadpool 2 costars Josh Brolin (Cable) and Zazie Beetz (Domino).

20th Century Fox has yet to set an official release date for X-Force, but it's been heavily rumored that filming will start before 2018 draws to a close. In the meantime, Goddard is keeping busy with post-production on his noir thriller Bad Times, which opens in theaters in October. Since Fox is the studio behind both X-Force and Bad Times, they have agreed to hold off on rushing into the former until Goddard is fully done with his current project.

Cinemablend got a chance to ask Goddard how he's balancing his commitments to both X-Force and Bad Times at this past week's press junket for Bad Times. Here's what the director had to say on that topic:

It's a good question. I've learned I'm very much a one-movie-at-a-time kind of guy, and they all know. It's the same studio, which is nice, so they can say, 'Okay, get [Bad Times At The El Royale] done,' and then once I get this movie done and get this into theaters we'll turn our attention that way.

Someone approaching the motel in Bad Times at the El Royale poster.

Goddard was serving as showrunner/creator on Marvel and Netflix's the impending Disney/Fox deal, there's some uncertainty surrounding X-Force - even after the runaway box office success of Deadpool 2.

That said, it's highly unlikely that X-Force will go the way of Sinister Six, no matter what the future holds for Fox. Deadpool 2 only came out in theaters a month back anyway, so there's no need for Goddard and Fox to fast track X-Force more than they already have. Plus, with Bad Times shaping up to be something special, that's all the more reason for Goddard to take his time fine-tuning the film before he turns his attention fully to Deadpool and his super-friends.