Gambit Movie Details: Early Version Was Set in the 70s
44Gambit Movie Details: Early Version Was Set in the 70s
A Gambit movie has been in the works for a long while now, and with Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox’s film studio, the future of the X-Men spinoff is in a state of flux. But throughout the film’s development, it’s gone through a number of different directors and script revisions, all under the watch of Channing Tatum, who’s signed to star as the titular mutant in addition to producing the film.
The first director who officially signed on to direct Gambit was Rise of the Planet of the Apes filmmaker Rupert Wyatt, who boarded in June 2015. Development continued and Lea Seydoux was cast as the film’s female lead, Bella Donna Boudreaux, but in September 2015, Wyatt dropped out of the film. Other directors would eventually sign on and then leave, including Doug Liman and Gore Verbinski, but the film has yet to come to fruition, and we’ve only gotten minor updates on what it would entail.
Collider’s own Steve Weintraub recently spoke with Wyatt at SXSW in anticipation of the release of his new sci-fi film Captive State, and during the course of their conversation, Wyatt revealed not only why he left Gambit, but what his version of the film would have entailed. As for why he exited the movie, Wyatt says we have Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot to blame:
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