He created the first Netflix-Marvel television series, Daredevil, and he also previously wrote a Sinister Six film which never saw the light of day when Sony started teaming up with Marvel after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 underperformed.
The series positioned itself as an edgier X-Men, as the team formed by Cable use a more black ops approach to crime fighting.
Goddard has, of course, taken on Marvel properties before.
X-Force would draw from the ’90s comic book series of the same title, which Drew Goddard admits he loved and still has quite a few issues stored away in his garage.