Happy Memorial Day, everyone! I apologize for not having a post up earlier today, but since I had an extended weekend, I decided to do some traveling around, but now I'm back, so let's jump right in!
So...last weekend I talked about how the X-Men were about to extend their universe by introducing the New Mutants to the big screen, and I also talked about how there were a couple of X-Men stand-alone films that were in the works. One of these stand-alone films is going to star Channing Tatum as Gambit. He recently sat down with Empire Magazine to talk about the upcoming film. Here's what he had to say about the character Gambit:
"I love Gambit," Tatum says. "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!"
As far as the film itself goes, here's what he had to say:"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 (Laughs), but maybe we're going to shift things a little bit. 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 Galaxyroute. All I can say is, I'm super excited."
Look, I'm not a huge Channing Tatum fan, but if can pull of a creole accent, then I'll give it a shot. If he can't, then I'm done with X-Men stand alone films. Why, you ask? Easy...X-Men Origins: Wolverine!
Gambit is slated to be released October 7, 2016.
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