I Like Ike: Stephen Lang May Be Next Cable in Deadpool Sequel by Gary Hainsworth

There's an interesting rumor going around the internet grapevine, which I hope isn't just a rumor but something which will turn out to be a fact. Apparently, Stephen Lang, who played Colonel Miles Quaritch in "Avatar" (2009), wants to play Cable in an upcoming Deadpool sequel. The very same Cable and sequel promised to us by a robed Deadpool in the post-credit scene à la "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) of his eponymous film Deadpool (2016).

My response to all of this can be summed in two words: Yes, please. He would be perfect. Then again, Ron Perlman could work on account of being a bad ass, but the question is whether he would the right type of bad ass. It's also not clear if him ending up playing both Hellboy and Cable, I.e. some of the biggest baddasses in comic book movie adaptation history, in a single career would unravel the space-time continuum or not. For the universes sake, including the space-time continuum which science just proved is something that actually exists beyond the realm of hypothetical and probable. we better play it safe. I like the universe. It's where I keep my stuff.

So, my overall opinion is that I'm all for Stephen Lang. Does anyone else remember when he played Major General George E. Pickett in "Gettysburg". Does anyone else remember when Kurt Russel threatened to turn his noggin head into a head canoe in "Tombstone" (1993). Wyatt Earp most certainly didn't like Ike right then and there, but I like Ike right now; especially over the idea of him becoming Cable. 

Stephen Lang would make a good Cable.

© 2016 by Gary Hainsworth