Hoping to expand beyond the X-Men, and Wolverine, Fox
has set the Gambit spinoff starring Channing Tatum for an October 7, 2016
release.
Speaking to Empire Magazine, Tatum revealed where his
love for the character stems from.
"I love Gambit," the actor said. "I
grew up in the South; my father's from Louisiana. We'd go to New Orleans and I
heard all the dialects. It felt so different from the rest of America; it has
its own ancient culture. So I identified with that. And he always felt the most
real of the X-Men to me. He's kind of a tortured soul and he's not a good guy.
But he's not a bad guy, either. He walks his own path. And of course he plays
cards and drinks and is a martial-arts badass!"
The actor also revealed something about the film
itself, and revealed that the first draft of the script has been delivered and
that it will an origin story.
"Josh Zetumer just turned in the first draft of
the script, and it's killer. None of us were sure how he was going to deal with
the X-Men world. But we're going to be changing some of the tropes of these
movies. It's always about saving the world (Laughs), but maybe we're going to
shift things a little bit. There's so many ways you can take [an origin story].
You could do it like Batman Begins, or a different take and go the Guardians of the Galaxy route. All I can say is, I'm
super excited."
Can't say I'm surprised that the Gambit spinoff will be
an origin story, though I was hoping that the character would appear in X-Men:
Apocalypse and that his backstory would be fleshed out there. Having said that,
Zetumer is working from a treatment penned by Gambit's creator, and X-Men
legend, Chris Claremont, so they should have a solid foundation.
Source - Empire Magazine
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