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.”
“No knock on Taylor Kitsch, though, ’cause I actually like his Gambit, but I’ve always lived around Cajun people. Gambit was always like the woman-loving, cigarette-smoking, drinking guy. He was the punk rock of all the superheroes. He’s a thief. He kind of rode the line.”
Now the X-Men producer might be willing to bet on the gambler thief mutant.
“I’m dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum,” Lauren Shuler Donner reveals to Empire. “That doesn’t have to be a great big movie. It’s a thief in New Orleans, it’s a whole different story. He’s on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He’s such a sweetheart.”
Taylor Kitsch played Gambit in X-Men: Origins: Wolverine.
In the comics – Remy was 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 bombs away.
Remy is one of many reformed criminals among the X-Men. He even played a critical role in helping Mister Sinister orchestrate the “Mutant Massacre.” Remy has an on-again, off-again romance with fellow Southerner Rogue. Remy married a mutant named Belladonna of the Assassins Guild in a wedding designed to form a truce between the Guilds.
Gambit is currently a member of the All-New X-Factor.
By Editor
Thanks to Dark Horizons.