Now that was unexpected.
I've seen Mr. Thorne on various interviews over the years and he's come across as a writer with very interesting ideas, so in that respect I'm very curious about how he'll approach this particular team of X-Men characters. Forge being responsible for leading the team will likely open the door to a lot of inventions as well as to their consequences, which should be creatively appealing.
Furthermore, I'm also a pretty big fan of Marcus To. Artistically speaking, I tend to like art styles with such a "clean" line and that look will definitely bring some freshness to the X-Force concept in a visual sense.