Channing Tatum IS Gambit

*snore*

Script taken from a treatment by Chris Claremont!...and then written by the guy who did the Robocop remake. GREAT.

if there's anyone i want saying cherie on a movie screen before throwing a playing card, it's channing tatum

http://www.heyuguys.com/images/2012/10/Gambit-UK-Poster.jpg

OH PETITE! GAMBIT NO WANNA SEE DAT FILM CHERIE!

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Gambit is possibly the stupidest x-man ever

There's always Maggott

Now imagine them as buddy-cop types with their own film together.

There are alot of stupid X-men, but Gambit is the stupidest 'fan-favorite' one.

what's his thing -- he generates exploding cards? Dunno why Stan Lee didn't create Chips, who can generate poker chips that explode deadly shrapnel.

i can't "wait" to see Tatum breakin' out the mon freres

xp he can charge any object with kinetic energy, the cards thing is easy to carry and you know, he's a t'ief

So who'll be Jonah Hill then?

Meryl Streep.

Wasn't Gumbo supposed to be sexy? Channing looks...unfinished.

wasn't gumbo spicy

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/channing-tatum-gambit-movie-797989

"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."

..."He always felt the most real of the X-Men to me...kind of a tortured soul and […] 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."

He always felt the most real of the X-Men to me...kind of a tortured soul and […] 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.

cool

indeed, i can hardly think of a more "real" and three-dimensional x-man than tortured martial-arts card-playing, drinking badass Gambit

i mean i guess i can sorta see the logic of a gambit movie, if you're only going to do so many solo character movies - he has his own separate venue with its own mythology, so that could maybe be kinda interesting, and the glowing flying cards have always seemed base-level cool. it's just the character itself is such a bag of cliches with no arc or core concept that anybody connects with.

not a good guy. But he's not a bad guy, either

Sounds like some real strong characterization going on here. He drinks! Complexity!

I liked Gambit a lot as a kid but it was mostly his costume. His hair looked cool coming out the top of that weird head turtleneck thing. Also love the gloves that only cover your middle two fingers. Dig the blue/magenta body armor w the fake abs too.

But yeah he was pretty stupid.

Script taken from a treatment by Chris Claremont!...and then written by the guy who did the Robocop remake. GREAT.

You mean Frank Miller?

i really hope channing genuinely feels this way about gambit. he probably knows fox needs a new hunky x-man with jackman aging out, but age-wise he could genuinely have spent his youth thinking a cajun card-thrower with a cool haircut was the dope. wonder if he bought early issues of Wildc.a.t.s. and shit

was the dopest, rather

I like the cards, and the idea of the X-Men having this guy who, power-wise, is sorta down there with Batman and is getting by mainly on agility and gumption. I remember him looking pretty cool in an early Phalanx story, where Madureira has him leaping wildly, almost suicidally around a dockyard, off rooftops and shit. He would have been a good parkour gimmick character, would fit into the idea of him as a thief, occupying marginal spaces, etc. But as far as I remember his personality was always pretty much a shitty Han Solo type with these attempts to add extra Wolverine. And his dumb, endlessly-deferred romance story with Rogue, which didn't make him more interesting and effectively put her character on hiatus for a decade or more.

I totally believe Tatum's sincere - he's basically my age and his likely first point of exposure was the animated series!

just now tried to find some clips of him looking like a badass on the show and instead found this, whose creator has won my undying respect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJhdE3aXmJM

oh man i hope it's not the tv show but that pre-image era of comics that got him hooked. i want him at meetings with fox asking if theres a way to make the guns bigger and the feet smaller

they ARE planning an X-Force movie after gambit

Sylvester Stallone IS Cable

But as far as I remember his personality was always pretty much a shitty Han Solo type with these attempts to add extra Wolverine. And his dumb, endlessly-deferred romance story with Rogue, which didn't make him more interesting and effectively put her character on hiatus for a decade or more.

I was in college when the cartoon aired but I liked their Han-Leia sass.

The Han/Leia thing is fine as far as it goes, it was just shitty that the only thing anyone could write for Rogue became "I love him... but I can't touch him!" recycled about a million times over. The possible pathos to be wrung out of some kind of safe-sex metaphor were rapidly wrung out of it and it just became stupid and irritating, with a heavy overtone of "WTF does she see in this loser anyway?" I mean she was basically a Superman-class hero with this long established history, being thrown at this newcomer to insure he had a character subplot justifying his presence in the comic. She should have dumped his dumb ass sometime around 1992.

Now that would actually be a unique premise for a Gambit movie: in the first scene he gets dumped by his much cooler superhero girlfriend, let's see what he does next!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvVENMFW0fg

other key "first Gambit exposure" scene for me, kinda sums up his pros and cons pretty thoroughly. i feel channing tatum is capable of this level of line delivery

LOL @ that video. Love the "don't-d-d-d-d-d-d-don't" part at the end w the guy waving his finger.

baffled that anyone ever thought this sloppy mishmash of undercooked ideas was a decent/"cool" character

i never saw the tv show

http://viridian.mrks.org/gambitgame.jpg

"could you guys cgi more lines on my face? i should be like "YAAAAAAAAA"....and why does there have to be a background in every shot? can't we have some where it's just, like, a color?"

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This was my intro to X-Men. Still upset X-Men movies look nothing like this.

srsly i got my fingers crossed that tatum is gonna roid things up on these side movies

so what's the deal -- Gambit carries thermonuclear old maid cards

I don't get his mutant power

me neither, he makes zero sense

if I want a mutant hurling thermonuclear old maid cars while saying Cajun bon mots in the nude I'd want Channing Tatum -- let's get real.

*cards

okay y'all have sold me on the idea of channing tatum bullying the director into making this a hyper-stylized filmic treatment of turn-of-the-90s bad superhero art. "could you guys cgi more lines on my face? i should be like "YAAAAAAAAA"....and why does there have to be a background in every shot? can't we have some where it's just, like, a color? this would be so amazing

for the record his power is to "charge" objects with "kinetic energy" so that they fly away and explode. by itself that's kinda generic, but to the credit of chris claremont (or, i suspect, jim lee, given CC's famous indifference to what would actually look cool or be fun to draw in a superhero comic, god bless 'im) he carries around packs of cards so he always has something to charge up and fire away. i'll take that over the period's endless "energy blasts" to be honest. i just wish this power had been given to a less stupid character.

does he ever fight Doctor Doom? I've pined for an awesome onscreen Doctor Doom.

Doom returns to theaters in august, hypothetically could face gambit if Fox ever decides to merge their Fantastic Four and X-men rights

Damn, Anthony beat me to it

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/channing-tatum-gambit-movie-797989

Check the next story on that link.

Max Lord makes zero sense as a JLA movie character if you're not going into full on Joke League America territory.

They should've cast Mark Cuban as Maxwell Lord, not Jay Baruchel!!

I hated Gambit right from the start when he was introduced to the X-Men, because he felt like a "90s edgy" replacement for Longshot, one of my favourite characters, who'd left the team a while earlier. They were both agile, parkour-style fighters who jumped a lot, both threw projectile weapons, both had a mysterious past, both were good-looking guys the ladies liked... But whereas Longshot was optimistic and naive, Gambit was cynical and brooding, which was the trend at the time.

I would like to suggest this as another piece of dialogue that should be in the film

http://www.virginiagallery.co.uk/Gordon

strong guy otm

They should've cast Mark Cuban as Maxwell Lord, not Jay Baruchel!!
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oh wow, totally.

Channing Tatum ISN'T Gambit.

huh

great opportunity to bring back tim riggins of mars to reprise his widely-acclaimed performance as the ragin' cajun from x-men origins: wolverine

nice

Speaking as an unabashed X-Men fan, I'm 100% okay with there not being a Gambit movie.

Channing Tatum IS Gambit... Again!

somewhere taylor kitsch is weeping

i will bet a shiny silver dollar this is gonna suck

This will be the best super hero film ever, mon freres

i disagree mes amis

I have never understood the appeal of this character

I do, it doesn't help. He was bigger than Wolverine when I was reading X-Men comics in the 90s, had thought he was gone for good :(

I get the impression that there's going to be a Gambit movie because Channing Tatum wants a Gambit movie to exist. In terms of projects to gamble your clout on it seems like a Longshot but I wish him nothing but the Beast.

I remember some guy telling me Gambit and Blade were the only cool Marvel characters.

I was scanning SNA quickly and I thought this said "Channing Tatum is Ghandi".

Too bad he dropped out of playing Houdini:

"Big" (yeah the Tom Hanks movie) Prequel On The Way

Kinda funny that one of the very, very few '90s Marvel characters who wasn't depicted as a super-buff bohunk in the comics is being played in a movie by a super-buff bohunk.

While I have not seen Magic Mike XXL, I am under the impression Channing & Co. did their damndest to make that movie a pinnacle of fan service, and I hope they do the same here. A trailer set to Nine Inch Nails covering "My Cherie Amour" would be a good start.

i would like to see that

apparently they are still pretending to be making this movie? channing tatum IS locked into this contract! apparently we missed a period when gore verbinski was directing it. the most recent story i found suggests the current director is seeing it more as a love story than a heist story. because if there's one thing everybody loves about gambit, it's his troubled history with CANDRA, queen of the thieves' guild (or was it the assassin's guild?). tuomas otm upthread, gambit is a weak, grim-n-gritty replacement for longshot, who you'd want played by a totally guileless, good-natured kind of 80s surfer dude. keanu reeves in bill and ted would have been good.

but to be fair, i suspect that longshot was only teleported into the danger room because (a) ann nocenti, his co-creator, was claremont's editor on x-men (b) art adams, his other co-creator, drew that issue, and (c) claremont, having written nightcrawler out (and into excalibur) was feeling the absence of an agile, light-hearted character despite the dour direction he was pursuing overall. in one of the more bizarre and meta moments in claremont's 11-year run, longshot quit the team off-panel, after confiding in storm (in not so many words) that he's realized he has no subplots, character arcs, or anything to wax angsty about, and thus, given the book's preoccupations, is at risk of disappearing into nothing. he then came back for a pointless two-issue story in the pre-image era - i suspect jim lee just wanted a chance to draw mojo - and was needlessly bulked up and vengeful-ed out. the blood-spattered 90s had no room for him, even if he did have "shot" in his name.

all that said, neither longshot nor nightcrawler is all that compelling outside of an ensemble, which is probably good since i'm not convinced hollywood could do them any kind of justice. gambit isn't compelling outside or inside of an ensemble, but i also don't care if they fuck him up. there's not much there TO fuck up tbh. i was about to say, what the hell, i'll probably see this if it ever comes out, but then i realized i haven't seen the last TWO x-men movies (nor the deadpool films) so clearly i left my fandom somewhere back down the road, cherie.

Yeah, I just saw yesterday that this was still on the slate for some reason, even though Fox will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney soon and every Fox film in preproduction will probably get shitcanned shortly thereafter.

This is basically what Sony is doing with the Spider-Man adjacent movies. No one wants a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum, no one wants a Morbius movie with Jared Leto, but goddamn it you're going to get it anyway.

I didn't think anyone wanted a Venom movie with Tom Hardy, but apparently this shit has no end. I don't think they're wrong, commercially speaking, to just double down endlessly.

I'm sure they assume that the visual spectacle that carried Venom to its (mostly overseas) success will translate directly into an equally-successful Silver Sable/Black Cat movie.

feel like we're so used to predictions of a superhero crash that they're now written off out of hand, "people were talking about superhero fatigue back in 2014!" the youtuber lindsay ellis has made the comparison to big studio musicals in the 60s, where the warning signs were there in the early-to-mid-60s, but obscured by the giant-sized success of giant-sized productions like my fair lady and sound of music. so the bet continued to be on giant-sized musicals, and then several very giant-sized ones (camelot, dr. dolittle, hello dolly) all bombed over a couple of years, and it was no longer a safe bet.

the other factor here would be the continuing development of china's own film industry and locally-resonant IP. right now nobody can match hollywood for sheer CGI spectacle, the money poured into yielding a really rich and continuous visual explosion without any distracting seams, shortcuts, or software presets. that won't last forever, surely.

Speaking as a comics fan, I'd just like to voice my opinion that 95% of non-MCU superhero movies are the hottest of hot trash. I do think that this is a bubble which will only last as long as Feige and company maintain a relatively high standard wrt their output. Once the overall quality of the field drops back to early-2000s levels, the craze will taper off.

No Surprise: https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/05/07/gambit-movie-channing-tatum-dead-canceled-removed-disney-schedule/

no this cannot beeeeee
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;_;

dead-canceled-removed

i panicked for a minute that my beloved channing was dead

He might as well be, what does he even have to live for now

look, as long as we have have jean-claude van damme as chance boudreaux in hard target we've already got the definitive gambit performance

I guess the time is ripe for me to call up Rue McClanahan and Dr. John to see if they're still onboard for my elderly Rogue & Gambit movie.

well, given that rue mcclanahan's been dead for nine years, i imagine that the time isn't the only thing which is ripe

And here I thought she was just ghosting me. Which isn't entirely untrue.

Channing Tatum WAS Gambit

i still love da croupier's pitch that this could be a filmic ode to the visual language of hack artists trying to imitate jim lee while drawing four books a month. no sets or cgi backgrounds, just washes of saturated magenta and orange and random manga ripoff lines everywhere, smoke always pouring in to avoid showing feet... could be amazing, sigh

channing tatum is a remarkably unselfconscious screen performer and i'm always happy to see his big dumb face

So I guess he's in this movie about ... a dog with PTSD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4tAtp-TyzQ

I don't think I'm spoiling anything when I predict that they'll fix each other.

weird

he’s in some other thing w sandra bullock where she’s a romance writer & he is a romance cover model - it looks like funny, like romancing the stone but not