Gambit Solo Film
 

Looks like we're getting a Gambit solo film starring Channing Tatum and based on a story by Chris Claremont. He'll also be in the Age of Apocalypse movie.

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/11/...remont-2396760

Chris Claremont is my favorite x-men writer, but I think the role has been seriously miscast. Channing Tatum doesn't even come close to my idea of Gambit. Imagining him doing a Cajun accent is already making me cringe. :(

I wonder if Rogue would be a part of this Solo film, Gambit and Rogue always had a thing, But as we seen in the X-Men movies, Rogue hooked up with Iceman.

Imagining Channing Tatum doing anything makes me cringe. :| I'm not one of those who creams their shorts over Gambit so it doesn't affect me too much, but hell, even I think it's a bizarre casting choice.

Here's hoping Claremont at least gives him some strong direction.

Channing Tatum is an actual Cajun. But I guess someone from Alberta, Canada would know better.

OH SNAP

Tatum is cool in my book. I woulda preferred them having stuck with Kitch but eh whatevs.

He's from Bama. Southern, but not quite Cajun.

His ancestry is mainly British. He has no Canadian (where Acadians/Cajuns were exiled from) or French ancestry.

This. He grew up in Mississipi - that doesn't make him Cajun. Tatum has also stated that he's working on his accent for the role, and will specifically be learning Patois as well... ergo, he doesn't have a built-in Cajun accent and arkangels' concerns are valid. But hey, this is the 'drome, where even the most innocuous statement will get turned into an argument by some people. :roll:

Accent aside, he's widely perceived to be a terrible actor. I'm not going to comment as to his attractiveness/sex appeal as it pertains to the role because everyone has different tastes, and besides, that's just mean - but I think it's a weird casting choice.

I think the narrative has switched on Tatum in recent years. Mostly thanks to the Jump Street movies. He's a really charismatic actor. He's not going to win any oscars but the same can be said for most of Marvel's actor roster.

The difference in Tatum from Step Up 2 to now is pretty big. He's gotten better. A lot better.

I agree. I actually don't mind him at all either. Not my first choice to play Gambit, but oh well I'm down.

Cool. I like Gambit.

Which member of One Direction is that in your avatar?
I had to google it. :lol::lol::lol:

Great, Tatum can sink another franchise the way he tanked G.I. Joe. Watch him suddenly discover he has some rigid stance about "not wanting to glorify playing cards" and asks the producers to kill him off ten minutes into the sequel.

I gave him a shot in a few things, can't say I'm a fan. Not terrible, but whenever I see him in anything, it's like Anyone Else could have done the exact same thing he did. He only gets work because he has pretty eyes.

How the **** did he tank GI Joe? He only came back for the second one as a favor, and both those movies are fun movies fitting of a ****ing toy franchise.

The guy is talented, and funny.

Its weird you mention Tatum sinking franchises, considering the last guy to play Gambit is almost quite literally box office poison. Do people forget Kitsch has been in a bunch of both critically panned & commercially tanked movies? Battleship? Wolverine Origins? John Carter?

Yeah. Maybe its ok to give someone a shot who can draw an audience and be actually entertaining.

I don't think anyone here was saying that the dude who played Gambit in the last movie was awesome - for my money, I thought he sucked as well. *shrugs*

I dunno, maybe they just thought Tatum would do well as the "sexy" Xman because of that Magic Mike movie? :-?

I don't *hate* the guy, but I do think the fact they had him as Duke really hurt that entire film franchise, and I actually really like the first one for reasons I can't fully explain. When I read that he didn't even really want to do the role, because he's apparently super-"anti-war" or whatever, and that was partly why Duke wasn't in the second one as much, made me think if they'd just gone with a completely different actor from the beginning, the entire series could have turned out differently. Because it's not like he HAD to play the part at all, literally anyone else could have, and they wouldn't have to suddenly work the entire second movie around whether or not the main protagonist was even available. It just seemed like simply having him be in the movies at all caused a lot more problems than it needed. I mean, don't get me wrong, he wasn't the only one who could have been cast differently, but I think he's the only one who actually caused serious problems with the entire plotting of future films.

I missed a couple X-Men movies so I don't have much experience with the last guy to play Gambit. No real opinion on if Tatum would be better or worse. I don't really have a set idea of Gambit in my head, other than maybe the Fox cartoon, and I doubt any film version would be quite the same anyway. I doubt Tatum will actually "ruin" anything, I just honestly don't think he has much screen presence. Nothing about him stands out, to me. Like I said, most of what I've seen him in, most other name actors could easily be Equal To or Greater Than and it wouldn't change a thing.

Anyways, in the end, the fact they're finally doing a Gambit movie is probably what's most important. When did they first start making noise about that, '96 or so? I remember later on when they were doing "Origins: Wolverine" I read that the second solo movie was going to be Magneto and the third was going to be Gambit. I honestly thought they'd be on like the third Gambit by now and not the first one. Least they're doing it.

Yay, Gambit may mean that Sinister shows up at some point. As for the solo film, yeah I'll watch it. Why not?

Unless they were all lies, I have been seeing rumors for some time that Tatum himself has always been a fan of the character and was offering to help produce any of the X-Men movies just so he can play Gambit, so it's not so much a choice, but an actor that kind of volunteered for the role.

Channing Tatum :lol:

Completely talentless. He's one of the worst 'actors' I have ever seen.

If they wanna go down the pretty boy route (not that Tatum is pretty) they might as well hire Travis Fimmel. He's better looking than Tatum as well as being a better actor.

Talent? Your milage may vary:

I didn't say he couldn't dance. I said he can't act.

Just seen Matt McConaughey in that clip. Now he's a quality actor.

... I'm not often at a loss for words, but I legitimately cannot think of a single thing to say after watching that video.

And when I say I'm speechless, it's not in a "oh my god, I'm blown away by the sheer g-force awesomeness" way. More a "... I need a moment to work out what the hell I just watched" kind of way. :lol:

All my fiancee will say is that I should be glad I couldn't see the video. hehe

Meh. I never thought Channing Tatum would be such a polarizing figure. Either people hate him apparently or people like him just enough to be ok with it. I got nothing against the guy, but he did seem out of place in G.I. Joe.
And yeah poor Taylor Kitsch is like cinematic poison. I like the guy but no one else is able to stand him, John Carter and Battleship were a testament to that. Savages was pretty good though, violent but good.

Wow, back when I was into Marvel comics etc back in the 90's Gambit was my favourite X Men character... I think Tatum is a horrendous choice to play him.

He has the wrong shaped face/head :lol:

Rupert Wyatt dropped out as director a few weeks ago.

http://comicbook.com/2015/09/16/dire...tatums-gambit/

Anna Paquin confirmed that she will not be appearing as Rogue in the film.

http://comicbook.com/2015/09/28/rogu...ear-in-channi/

Paquin has clarified what she meant on Twitter when it came to the Gambit film.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/29...n-gambit-movie

The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman is being eyed to direct the film.

http://comicbook.com/2015/10/19/the-...direct-gambit/

A few other candidates include Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) and Shane Black (Iron Man 3)

http://comicbook.com/2015/10/22/gamb...ders-revealed/

Is this still a thing? For starring the likes of Tanning Chatum, I would think it'd be getting a bit more coverage.

Looks like this movie is going to be pushed back to 2017 as filming is going to start in the Spring.

Also it's going to be a sexy heist Thriller.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...news/?a=127036

Well, it will at least be a heist thriller. :trolleye:

And this is a wise decision. Nobody got money for three X-Men movies when Captain America 3, Batman V Superman, Doctor Strange, Suicide Squad, and Apocalpyse are all hitting theaters. WTF were you thinking, Fox?

(Still not convinced this movie will ever make it out of what is almost certainly development hell... or at least development purgatory.)

I'm hoping they rethink the casting choice....

Considering the Magic Mike guy seems to be the only reason people are even TALKING about making this movie, I find that very unlikely.

The guy who did Bourne Identity? sounds good.

Liman is the second director to leave this film yet Fox is still pushing to start shooting this in January.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...t-loses-922260

I knew it. Gambit was thrown back to the drawing board because Deadpool did gangbusters as an R-rated movie.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/x-men...gambit-a152666

Tatum said "Never say never" about a PG-13 rating.

http://ew.com/movies/2017/07/21/chan...-movie-update/

And so the stop/go/stop/go rollercoaster goes...

GAMBIT MOVIE TAPS PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN AND THE RING DIRECTOR VERBINSKI

Fox now says Gambit will be out Valentines Day 2019

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/x-men...y-2019-a154498