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Gambit set to be an origins story
As you know FOX is set to bring Channing Tatum as Gambit to the big screen. And Tatum, not at all being subtle about wanting to be the explosive carddealer, revealed in an interview with Empire Magazine tht the Gambit narrative will follow an origins-style story:
I love Gambit. 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!
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 , but maybe we’re going to shift things a liittle but. 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.
Whether Tatum will make an appearance in X-Men Apocalypse, or even in the X-Men spinoff slated for the future is yet to be seen.
Gambit will be released in cinemas on October 7th 2016
