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Simon Kinberg to Collider: “You are absolutely right [that this is a different version]. There are elements that are similar, but it is different in tone, almost in sub-genre—one of the things that we’ve done with these standalone movies […] is that we’ve tried to create sort of sub-genres within the superhero genre when it…
Deadpool 2 is moving closer to Avengers: Infinity War. Fox has moved the film up two weeks from June 1 to May 18 this year, taking it out of the second weekend for Solo: A Star Wars Story and placing it in the third weekend for Marvel Studios’ massive team-up film. That is just one of three…
Filmmaker Gore Verbinski has exited the Channing Tatum X-Men spinoff, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Verbinski is just one of a number of directors who have been attached (and then left) the project. Verbinski joined the movie in October following departures of Rupert Wyatt in October 2015 and Doug Liman in August 2016.
Lizzy Caplan is in talks to join the cast of “Gambit,” Variety has learned. The “Masters of Sex” star will play the female lead in the superhero movie. Details of her part are being kept under wraps.
Gambit always was known for being a romantic, so it’s only appropriate that his movie is opening on Valentine’s Day. 20th Century Fox has set a Feb. 14, 2019 release date for Gambit, the X-Men spinoff starring Channing Tatum. Fox’s Deadpool opened to big numbers over Valentine’s Day weekend in 2016.
Gambit is closing in on a new captain. Gore Verbinski, the director behind the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, is in talks to direct Gambit.
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At the UK Premiere of Logan Lucky Channing Tatum told us that the Marvel movie of Gambit is now being rewritten following the success of R-Rated films such as Deadpool and Logan.
Brandon Davis was able to snag Tatum for a brief question after the actor appeared at San Diego Comic-Con. It was there ComicBook asked if the actor was still playing Gambit, and here’s what the actor had to say: “Yeah, of course. We’re working on it right now.”
“It is. It is. I don’t have any news on that but there’s still a desire and a passionate interest to see that movie made.”
CinemaBlend Events Editor Eric Eisenberg recently spoke with X-Men overseers Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker about James Mangold’s Logan, and the state of multiple X-Men movies. When we brought up Gambit, Kinberg confirmed to us: “In terms of Gambit, that’s a movie that we’re still developing very actively, and Channing [Tatum] is incredibly committed to…