...and according to current producer, it's going to be a f***** rom-com. Save us Marvel Studios, you're our only hope. 'Gambit' Movie Is Going to Be a Romantic Comedy With 20th Century Fox's plans for the X-Men franchise coming under the wire as Disney's purchase is finalized, many fans are wondering if the long-planned, oft-delayed Gambit movie is actually in the works. It turns out that Channing Tatum's superhero movie is not dead yet. Producer Simon Kinberg recently teased the project's development, revealing a surprising direction for the tone and genre of Gambit that might perplex some fans. "When you look at Gambit, he’s a hustler and a womanizer and we just felt like there was an attitude, a swagger to him, that lent itself to romantic comedy," Kinberg recently told IGN. This is a surprising statement from Kinberg, who is the steward of the X-Men franchise as well as the writer and director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Given that Gambit has gone through multiple directors — including Doug Liman and Gore Verbinski — and they have yet to get anyone to commit to the project, it's surprising that they're already committed to a direction. But Kinberg assured that fans shouldn't take too much stock in his statement, as the film will still be an X-Men movie. "You know, when I say romantic comedy, I use that term loosely, in the same term that I use the term western for Logan loosely," Kinberg said. "It’s not like they’re gunslingers at high noon in Logan. It’s just a vibe. And I would say the vibe of Gambit has a romantic or sex comedy vibe to it. While it is also still very much a superhero movie with villains and heroes, as all these movies are." Of course, some fans might assume all of these plans could be moot with the impending sale of 20th Century Fox and its intellectual property. Walt Disney Company chairman Bob Iger has already stated that the Marvel properties currently belonging to Fox, including the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, will go under the banner of Marvel Studios when the purchase is finalized. And though that purchase is set to be finalized sometime in the first half of 2019, Kinberg and Fox are moving forward; business as usual.
Fox with the scorched earth tactics. How many of our characters can we screw up before Marvel gets to use them correctly. Save for Deadpool, Marvel's gonna have to set the mutants aside for a while to let the stench clear.
This movie isn't going to get made. Thank the Lord for that. They just pushed this dumpster fire to 2020, I hope those rights revert sooner rather than later.
So the rumor, according to my sauce at Fox Studios (and I'm not sure if he picked this rumor up at work or just on some website), is that there were rumblings of Dark Phoenix not even getting finished/released. But Fox pushed hard for it. In return, Disney is saying no more to any other movies. He mentioned that New Mutants is lost in purgatory and no one really knows what's going on with it as it is being kept under wraps. So I will put my money with @seclusion that this won't get made.
I don't care if it's a rom com. Fox should just go balls to the wall crazy with X-Men before they lose the property forever. They were too safe and that's why the X-Men movies are trash.
There's a trailer for New Mutants- I have a hard time believing that they won't release it. As a standalone movie, it looks pretty good.
Well the issue, per the sauce, is that the trailer didn't really accurately represent the movie. And since people liked the trailer they were unsure of what to do. Release it and piss everyone off because it's actually not very horror-ish? Or do a lot of reshoots and change the tone of the movie? So, as far as he knows, it's just been sitting on a shelf. He said in a break room they still have a poster for the movie with an April 2018 release date.
**** New Mutants and all of this trash they're trying to push out at the last second. I can't stand Fox, I have no idea how Logan and Deadpool even got made with how ****ing inept those people are.
If you read his full quotes, he is using the term romantic comedy loosely. I guess in that sense you could argue Deadpool is a romantic comedy. Still, seems pretty stupid to even remotely attempt to sell it as such. No confidence whatsoever that this will be any good.
Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy loses girl, boy wins back girl. That's pretty much every rom-com I've ever seen. Edit: Hell, he even had the whole "I'm not good looking enough to be with her" breakdown that we see in so many rom-coms.
I can see it now: Katherine Heigl as Rogue, a sexy southern belle who just got dumped by slimy college Professor Xavier, played by Jason Bateman, and Paul Rudd as lovable, down on his luck Gambit, a recovering gambleholic from New Orleans. Sparks will fly, and maybe even love will be found.
