'Gambit' X-Men Spinoff Will Be a Unique Origin Movie

Back in May, producer Lauren Shuler Donner confirmed that Channing Tatum will star as the mystical, card-throwing Cajun mutant Remy LeBeau, a.k.a. Gambit, after the actor spent months campaigning for the role in various interviews. We also reported that the actor will first appear in X-Men: Apocalypse before his own stand-alone Gambit adventure. While doing press for The Book of Life, Channing Tatum offered an update on the movie, revealing that they are searching for a writer to give this character a unique origin story in what will be a smaller movie than we usually see in the X-Men franchise.
"We're finding a writer and sort of beating it out. We really do want to try our hardest to give something fresh. We're obviously going to go to the saving the world superhero movies eventually, but not for the first one. We kind of want to introduce this character in a very different way, and when you try to do something different, you never know, right off the bat, what that is. It takes a little time to get it right. We're really just feeling our way, and we have to prove that concept of that person."
It remains to be seen how Gambit will be introduced in X-Men: Apocalypse, which will be set in the 1980s, or when the stand-alone Gambit will be set. Gambit was first portrayed on the big screen by Taylor Kitsch in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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Gambit comes to theaters in 2017 and stars Channing Tatum.