DEADPOOL 2 Won't Go In Depth Into Cable's History

The Deadpool sequel will introduce fan-favorite characters Cable and Domino to the movie franchise. Specifically, Cable ( Josh Brolin), has one of the most elaborate back stories in Marvel's catalog. So spending too much time explaining his origin in Deadpool 2 could eat up most of the running time.

To sum it up for you, Cable is the son of the X-Men's Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey. He was taken to the future after being infected with a "techno-organic virus." After a crazy series of events, Cable time travels to our present with the simple mission of killing Apocalypse so none of this would happen in the first place. That's just a little taste of his back story and it seems like that might need its own movie to explain instead of setting it up in Deadpool 2. 

In fact, in a recent interview with ScreenRant Deadpool 2 director David Leitch suggested that might be the direction the movie ends up taking.

"Look, I think besides all of the Deadpool, sort of the film universe Deadpool, you kind of have to be selective of like how you approach these characters because there's a canon of work that's so massive that you could never put it all on screen," Leitch said. "So we've been really particular what we're going to put in and what we'e going to leave for potential future if it goes that way and, uh, I think you'll like it. It's all in the spirit of canon, and also in the spirit of like what Deadpool the movie is."

In the spirit of Deadpool? That might be a hint that Ryan Reynolds will fill the audience in with everything they need to know by breakingthe fourth-wall.

Deadpool 2 opens June 1, 2018.