CHANNING TATUM As GAMBIT In 2016

X-Men: Origins: Gambit courtesy Marvel
X-Men: Origins: Gambit courtesy Marvel

Channing Tatum and Fox set the date for Gambit.

Channing Tatum will star as the X-Man in a solo movie for Fox slated for October 7, 2016 according to Variety.

Gambit opens just a few months after X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27, 2016) as the eight film in the the X-Men franchise.  Joshua Zetumer wrote the screenplay. No word on a director yet.

Remy LeBeau was co-created by Chris Claremont. The mutant with the power to charge up kinetic energy in any object is a ladies man, gambler, thief. Gambit became a fan-favorite X-Man. Continue reading CHANNING TATUM As GAMBIT In 2016

Why GAMBIT In All-Female X-MEN

X-Men: Origins: Gambit courtesy Marvel
X-Men: Origins: Gambit courtesy Marvel

Storm, Psylocke, Monet and Rachel Grey investigate a mysterious event in The Burning World starting in X-Men #23.

A fan-favorite outcast X-Man guest stars in the upcoming arc by Ms. Marvel writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Roland Boschi (Winter Soldier: The Bitter March).

Gambit is known as a ladies man and that makes  him a perfect guest star for the story.

Willow explains why Remy was the perfect choice to appear in this new arc. Continue reading Why GAMBIT In All-Female X-MEN

CHANNING TATUM GAMBIT Movie Dreams Updated

X-Treme X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel
X-Treme X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel

Channing Tatum is reportedly all signed up to star as Remy LeBeau in a Gambit solo movie for Fox.

With Channing Tatum’s star power, Remy Lebeau rises to the top of the deck when it comes to X-Men spinoff films.

Who is Gambit? What is his story? How will it impact the X-Men movie franchise?

Remy is a Cajun thief from New Orleans with a shady past who joined the X-Men. Will Remy steal his way into X-Men: Apocalypse?

Remy was an orphan adopted by the Thieves Guild of New Orleans. He’s skilled with a bow staff and his mutant power is to charge up kinetic energy in any object. His favorite and signature move is to charge up a deck of playing cards and deal out them out like bombs.

Continue reading CHANNING TATUM GAMBIT Movie Dreams Updated

CHANNING TATUM As GAMBIT Confirmed?

Gambit #3 courtesy Marvel
Gambit #3 courtesy Marvel

Channing Tatum will play Gambit.

X-Fans – I think we have a confirmation.

 

Tatum has stated Gambit is his favorite X-Man and how much he’d like to play him.

 

After several rounds of teasing and much like the charming mutant thief would do…the story seems to be confirmed.

 

While at the London premiere of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Producer Lauren Schuler Donner practically confirmed Tatum will play Gambit in an upcoming film when asked by Total Film. Continue reading CHANNING TATUM As GAMBIT Confirmed?

X-MEN: Mutants of Future Spinoffs

X-Men: Days of Future Past courtesy Fox
X-Men: Days of Future Past courtesy Fox

X-Men: Days of Future Past is coming fast on the horizon. X-Men: Apocalypse is slated for 2016. The Wolverine sequel is clawing into theaters after that. Producers have started talking the possibilities of more X-Men solo spinoff  movies including Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique.

 

The fuel to a Gambit movie fire are lit up again after the MTV Movie Awards. Channing Tatum told MTV he’s met with Producer Lauren Schuler Donner and again expressed his love for Remy Labeau, the mutant played by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men: Origins: Wolverine.

 

Which X-Men characters deserve a movie? Continue reading X-MEN: Mutants of Future Spinoffs

X-MEN Producer on CHANNING TATUM as GAMBIT

X-Men: Origins: Gambit courtesy Marvel
X-Men: Origins: Gambit courtesy Marvel

Is luck changing for fans of the charming X-Man Remy LeBeau?

 

Could there be a Gambit solo movie on the horizon?

 

Channing Tatum (Magic Mike, White House Down) is a fan. Here’s what the star said last year according to Empire.

 

“I would like to play Gambit. Gambit’s my favorite. I’m from New Orleans, around that area. My dad’s from New Orleans, and I like to do a Cajun accent. I could do it for real.” Continue reading X-MEN Producer on CHANNING TATUM as GAMBIT