The star of the 2013 film Oldboy was cast as a Marvel Comics character. He was cast as the character in the X-Men universe whose origin was revealed in X-Cutioner's Song.
 In April 2017, Brolin was cast as Nathan Summers / Cable as a part of a four-film contract in the "X-Men" film series, with his first appearance intended to be in "Deadpool 2". 
Cable (Nathan Summers) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with X-Force and the X-Men. 
 It was directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich, the film stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley. 
 The story was heavily hyped as revealing the origin of popular X-Force star Cable, but ultimately Cable's origin was not covered in any of the installments. 
