All other things pending regarding actor Channing Tatum‘s involvement on the future Ghostbusters and Jumpstreet franchises in some capacity, the Magic Mike XXL star is currently out promoting his new film which is set to arrive on July 1. However if a male stripper drama isn’t something you fancy and would rather see the actor in something a bit more explosive, you can best count on some of this happening in the upcoming release of 20th Century Fox’s Marvel adaptation, Gambit, which has been in the works for a while now.
The bright-eyed mutant character was initially created by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee in 1990 and shares a history as a bit of a wild-card anti-hero in the X-Men spectrum of the Marvel universe. Hailing from Louisiana with a thick Cajun accent, the character is best known for his affiliation with the X-Men, on top of his love for one of its youngest mutants, Rogue, his ability to charm, and his knack for harnessing energy into objects to make them explosive. Following Battleship star Taylor Kitsch’s rendering of the character in The Wolverine in 2009, Tatum was officially attached to the role early last year prior to Robocop scribe Josh Zetumer’s attachment later on, and with plenty of time between now and the film’s designated October 7, 2016 release date, EW exclusively reports that Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Gambler helmer Rupert Wyatt will be directing.
Tatum is also producing the film with Reid Carolin, Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg, the latter who wrote the upcoming August release of Josh Trank’s Fant4stic reboot and is also producing the May 2016 release of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse. The studio also has one other Marvel feature film adaptation in the form of Ryan Renyolds’s expansion as Deadpool which arrives four months earlier, whilst developing another of Claremont’s comic book work, The New Mutants with Josh Boone directing.
Stay tuned for more info!
