It’s learned the Channing Tatum Gambit movie will be put back into active development.
The Gambit movie recently lost its second potential director with Doug Liman, who moves on to direct DC’s Justice League Dark live-action film.
A couple of months ago also saw Simon Kinberg update the Gambit movie in that they are getting the tone of Gambit right.
I think the truth is when you have these movies that need a very special and unique tone, it takes a little while to find that tone…’Deadpool’ feels like it exploded out of nowhere, but it was a 10-year development process on that movie. I think it was honed over those 10 years.
I hope that ‘Gambit’ doesn’t take 10 years, but it takes a little honing to get that tone and that voice exactly right. The character has such a specific voice in the comic in the same way that ‘Deadpool’ has a specific voice in the comic, that we want to make sure that we capture that voice on the page. Really it’s just about getting a screenplay that is worthy of that character, and I think we’re really close right now.
The Channing Tatum Gambit movie was originally going to be released some time in 2018.
