Channing Tatum to play Gambit

JP Liz V1

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Channing Tatum Confirmed As Gambit In ‘X-Men’ Spinoff Movie

I wonder will he be introduced in closing titles or X-Men: Apocalypse

Variety

I quite liked Taylor Kitsch playing Gambit in Origins: Wolverine

Nervous Wreck

Kitsch was fine but with the movie being so bad, we'll never know if he would actually have been decent in the role fulltime. I like Tatum a lot; look forward to seeing this.

Yeti Beast

I like Tatum too - he has a lot more strings to his bow than some of his contemporaries. Is Gambit a big enough draw to warrant his own movie though?

FortuneChip

Dair. wrote: »

I like Tatum too - he has a lot more strings to his bow than some of his contemporaries. Is Gambit a big enough draw to warrant his own movie though?

Before the first X-Men movies were released, and so Wolverine focused, you'd never even have asked that question!

Yeti Beast

FortuneChip wrote: »

Before the first X-Men movies were released, and so Wolverine focused, you'd never even have asked that question!

I know Gambit and his standing in the X-Men universe. My point was, do modern movie audiences? The same people who lap up the bland Wolverine lead crap we've been served for a decade?

Morag

JP Liz V1

Dair. wrote: »

I like Tatum too - he has a lot more strings to his bow than some of his contemporaries. Is Gambit a big enough draw to warrant his own movie though?

I hope he can pull off the accent

Nervous Wreck

Dair. wrote: »

I like Tatum too - he has a lot more strings to his bow than some of his contemporaries. Is Gambit a big enough draw to warrant his own movie though?

Tatum is big enough. He'll (hopefully) bring Gambit to the masses.

JP Liz V1

I always thought Matthew McConaughey would be good as Gambit

thomas anderson.

I like this

Spoonman75

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I hope he can pull off the accent

But isin't Tatum from the south, like Gambit?

brevity

Gambit would have been one of my favorites growing up and I'm a fan of Tatum so this is win win for me. I think he'll do a great job.

JP Liz V1

Spoonman75 wrote: »

But isin't Tatum from the south, like Gambit?

Is he from New Orleans?

Spoonman75

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is he from New Orleans?

Well, Alabama. And raised in Mississippi. What I meant from my previous post was that he's from the south so I think he could handle a southern accent.

Temptamperu

Spoonman75 wrote: »

Well, Alabama. And raised in Mississippi. What I meant from my previous post was that he's from the south so I think he could handle a southern accent.

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nix

He's too bulky for the role tbh, Gambit is kinda tall/skinny, atleast from my memory of the cartoon and comics, he would have to nail the cajun accent at the very least to warrant a thumbs up from me, i also haven't seen a good performance from Tatum in anything..

Kitsch was a terrible gambit, like woeful

JP Liz V1

nix wrote: »

He's too bulky for the role tbh, Gambit is kinda tall/skinny, atleast from my memory of the cartoon and comics, he would have to nail the cajun accent at the very least to warrant a thumbs up from me, i also haven't seen a good performance from Tatum in anything..

Kitsch was a terrible gambit, like woeful

I would recommend you to watch, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and also the 21 Jump Street remake

nix

I'll check out A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, but 21 jump was meh, wouldnt call it a remake also as its nothing like the tv show

JP Liz V1

nix wrote: »

I'll check out A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, but 21 jump was meh, wouldnt call it a remake also as its nothing like the tv show

Reboot whichever, I thought Tatum and Hill were very good, it exceeded my expectations

faceman

Was surprised at Tatum's casting. I don't think it'll work.

I think it's fair to say we've never had a true X Men movie. More Wolverine and Friends.

Bipolar Joe

faceman wrote: »

Was surprised at Tatum's casting. I don't think it'll work.

I think it's fair to say we've never had a true X Men movie. More Wolverine and Friends.

This. Wolverine is the most over rated member and is there for fan service. We're getting Wolverine movies, but the Deadpool one has been in limbo for how long?

I still don't get all the love recently for Wolverine.

stiffler123

I like Tatum but would have zero faith in him pulling this off. The guy who played Sawyer in Lost would be perfect for the role.

Bipolar Joe

Deleted User wrote: »

I still don't get all the love recently for Wolverine.

Wolverine was always the favourite, it's far from a new thing. Even in the cartoon, he was often the main focus. If I remember right, he was the first X-Man to get his own comic.

Agent Coulson

Fox has set Robocop scribe Josh Zetumer to write the screenplay.

The screenplay will be based on a treatment penned by legendary Marvel Comics writer Chris Claremont, who with Jim Lee created the character for Marvel in 1990. The storyline is being kept under wraps. The character, which also goes by the name Remy LeBeau, has the ability to charge matter with volatile kinetic energy, causing the object in question to explosively release its charge on impact.

http://deadline.com/2014/10/channing-tatum-gambit-marvel-comics-x-men-josh-zetumer-1201268949/

Agent Coulson

Fox has just announced that a Gambit movie will be released on October 7, 2016. Channing Tatum has previously been tied to the role of Gambit, and the actor confirmed his role in the film via Twitter after Fox's announcement.

http://comicbook.com/2015/01/06/gambit-movie-announced-for-october-7-2016/

https://twitter.com/channingtatum/status/552276922890485760

pmasterson95

Has to get Gambits accent down pat for this. Throw in some gallic flair. Not sure how I feel about Tatum tbh. Wonder how they will approach this. His time with the Thieves Guild? Will it be his time with Storm?

Dirty Steve

They could do a lot worse that Channing Tatum. He's done some good stuff recently (Foxcatcher, Side Effects, 21 Jump Street) so I'd be hopeful.
Gambit has a fierce attitude though, which is something he doesn't really do regularly.

Agent Coulson

Léa Seydoux Snags Female Lead In Gambit

EXCLUSIVE: Lea Seydoux has the offer to star alongside Channing Tatum in Fox’s Rupert Wyatt-directed X-Men spinoff Gambit. This was a hotly contested job for the role of Belladonna Boudreaux aka Bella. As Deadline was first to reveal, the studio had a shortlist with Seydoux, Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Abbey Lee and Rebecca Ferguson of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. They were set to test, and then Ferguson dropped out to take one of the leads in DreamWorks’ adaptation of The Girl On The Train.

Now, the role in Gambit will go to Seydoux, who moved from the racy Cannes sensation Blue Is The Warmest Color to the 007 film Spectre. In X-Men lore, Bella was Gambit’s love since childhood, but eventually she gained powers of her own and became head of the Assassins Guild. Gambit, aka Remy LeBeau, was head of the Thieves Guild. The French actress is repped by WME, United Agents and Agence Adequat.

http://deadline.com/2015/08/lea-seydoux-gambit-channing-tatum-james-bond-1201504941/

geraardo

I just don't see him as Gambit. The character that is Gambit it tall lean and slim Tatum is a large bloke so i can't see him visually pulling this off for me.

Either way I'm not a fan of Tatum which is a pity because Gambit is my favourite x-men character.

It isn't altogether unimaginable that Tatum would lose some weight for this role. He seems like the kind of person that would be willing to give that kind of commitment.