Channing Tatum IS Gambit

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