UPDATE: In the article below I said Channing Tatum would be playing Gambit in X-Men: Apocalypse, but THR reports he’ll actually play the character in a completely separate spin-off feature with his version of the character being introduced in X-Men: Apocalypse. The original story follows…
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has confirmed to Total Film (see video below) that Channing Tatum will play Gambit in X-Men: Apocalypse, the sequel to this year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past (Fox; 5/23).
Tatum revealed his interest to MTV back in April, confirming he’d met with Donner about the role saying:
I met with Lauren Shuler Donner. And I would love it. Gambit is really the only X-Man I’ve ever loved. I mean I’ve loved them all, they’re all great, but I guess from being down south – my dad’s from Louisiana, I’m from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida – I don’t know. I just related to him. He’s just kind of suave… He’s the most un-X-Men, X-Man that’s ever been in X-Men. Other than maybe Wolverine, who’s like the anti-hero. He’s a thief. He’s not even a hero. He’s kind of walking the line of grey…He loves women and drinking and smoking and stuff so he’s just a cool guy who happens to have a moral center….I hope it [works out]. You never know it’s a weird industry. If the stars align, I would die to play it. I’m already working on the accent. It’s crappy at the moment.
Word of Gambit’s involvement in the next film first began back in March when director Bryan Singer told CinePremiere, “I’m considering Gambit and potentially a young Nightcrawler for Apocalypse… I was going to have Nightcrawler [in Days of Future Past] and even wrote a scene, but I felt that we were forcing too many mutants into the story.”
X-Men: Apocalypse is slated for a May 27, 2016 release.
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