{"id":32283,"date":"2014-01-30T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32283"},"modified":"2014-05-13T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:30:31","slug":"shuler-donner-im-dying-to-do-gambit-with-channing-tatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/30\/shuler-donner-im-dying-to-do-gambit-with-channing-tatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuler Donner: I&#8217;m Dying To Do GAMBIT With Channing Tatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/channingtatum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/channingtatum.jpg\" alt=\"channingtatum\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a>Back in September, we ran something about Jamie Foxx<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/13\/jamie-foxx-talked-about-sinister-six\/\" target=\"_blank\"> confirming that the Sinister Six were in the works <\/a>for the <strong>Amazing Spider-Man\u00a0<\/strong>franchise. The tidbit was taken from an interview on a press junket for <strong>White House Down<\/strong> and Foxx&#8217;s costar from that movie, Channing Tatum was sitting right next to him. Tatum took the opportunity to add his two cents as to what Marvel character he&#8217;d like to work on.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXJgpTpnPEc\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/gambit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-32285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/gambit.jpg\" alt=\"gambit\" width=\"200\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/gambit.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/gambit-174x300.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>For those of you who can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t play that clip, here is what he said:<\/p>\n<div id=\"r1PostCPBlock\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I would like to play Gambit. Gambit\u2019s my favourite. I\u2019m from New Orleans, around that area. My dad\u2019s from New Orleans, and I like to do a Cajun accent. I could do it for real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo knock on Taylor Kitsch, though, \u2019cause I actually like his Gambit, but I\u2019ve always lived around Cajun people. Gambit was always like the woman-loving, cigarette-smoking, drinking guy. He was the punk rock of all the superheroes. He\u2019s a thief. He kind of rode the line.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In that above article, I stated that Tatum staking claim to that character would cause Fox to get in touch with his agents. I don&#8217;t know if that happened, but an X-Men producer has stated she want to work out a deal with the actor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/laurenshulerdonner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/laurenshulerdonner-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"laurenshulerdonner\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>As part of the big publicity push Empire Magazine is doing for <strong>X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/strong>, producer Lauren Shuler Donner spoke with the publication and gushed over the prospect of putting Tatum in the brown trenchcoat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum. That doesn&#8217;t have to be a great big movie. It&#8217;s a thief in New Orleans, it&#8217;s a whole different story. He&#8217;s on board, and I\u00a0have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing?\u00a0He&#8217;s such a sweetheart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you can allow me a moment of my usual snark, I find it funny that she makes a point that a <strong>Gambit <\/strong>film &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have to be a great big movie,&#8221; when <strong>The Wolverine<\/strong>, which she also produced, was fairly awesome smaller film for its first two-thirds before becoming a big, sloppy action film in its final third.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the film smaller might be an excellent way to get the studio on board. Tatum was a hot property after a stellar 2012, but with a disappointing\u00a0<strong>White House Down\u00a0<\/strong>last year, the romance might be off between him and Hollywood studio executives.<\/p>\n<p>Another potential stumbling block that has been mention is the fact that Taylor Kitsch has already played the role in <strong>X-Men Origins: Wolverine, <\/strong>obviously with an eye for a potential spin-off.\u00a0But that doesn&#8217;t seem to be that big of a stumbling block, as numerous characters such as Emma Frost and William Stryker have been repurposed for films that have come after it.<\/p>\n<p>But if Fox is serious in its efforts to build a shared universe with it&#8217;s Marvel license, a <strong>Gambit<\/strong> film with Channing Tatum would be a safe bet. It&#8217;s a charismatic character with female appeal and a charismatic actor with female appeal. And the only thing standing in the way is a green light from the studio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">See, what did I tell you?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/30\/shuler-donner-im-dying-to-do-gambit-with-channing-tatum\/\" title=\"Shuler Donner: I&#8217;m Dying To Do GAMBIT With Channing Tatum\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[441,7035,3600,1113,1181,5480],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-channing-tatum","8":"tag-gambit","9":"tag-lauren-shuler-donner","10":"tag-taylor-kitsch","11":"tag-x-men-origins-wolverine","12":"tag-x-men-days-of-future-past"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32283"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}