Big, Big, Big News!! Producer Lauren Shuler Donner was talking to Total Film magazine at the X-Men: Days Of Future Past premier and announced that Channing Tatum will be playing Gambit. She didn’t say specifically whether he’ll be doing a solo film, but one has to assume he’ll at least be appearing in X-Men: Apocalypse which is slated for release May 2016.
The nerd universe is really riled up about the casting of Tatum as the hugely loved character, Remy LeBeau. Gambit is seen more of as a tall, slender guy and Channing Tatum is, as one blogger put it, “Sausage Necked”. I get it, if he does a good job pleasing fans in the next X-Men movie, it’s almost inevitable that he will get a solo, spin-off film. He’s a bankable star and a pretty good actor. Let’s be honest, no one thought he could do comedy and he was hilarious in 21 Jump Street.
I say, “Give ole sausage neck a chance”.
What do you think?