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In 2014 an announcement
came that a Gambit stand alone film was in the works, after over a year
of rumors and interviews with the star Channing Tatum, but even with some
cast chosen, many set backs with director dropouts and script rewrites
postponed the film to the point the the original release date was canceled.
This put the fate of the film into limbo with little hope that it would
continue.
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Finally, in 2017, news
that the film was back on the books. With a new director, Gore Verbinski,
known for the original three Pirates of the Caribbean films and Cure for
Wellness, on board, a release date of Valentines Day 2019, and the announcement
of Jenny Beavan, the Oscar winning costume designer of Mad Max: Fury Road,
the hope for a feature film was reignited. Rumored storyline is based on
the origins story of Gambit before his time with the X-Men. It will cover
his time with the Thieves Guild and his early times with Mr. Sinister.
The movie has said to include the characters from Gambit's past, like Bella
Donna and Mr. Sinister, along with added characters pulled from other movies
in the franchise, like New Mutants, which releases before the Gambit film.
No actors have been hired for the other characters, but Channing Tatum
is still in for the Gambit himself.
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In 2019, after Disney acquiring the rights
to the X-Men movie rights, the Gambit solo movie was cancelled. Stating
the reason that there are plans that the X-Men would be brought into the
MCU, this film did not fit in with the plans.
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