Womanizers are so hot right now
Look, I know that comic book movie news often takes little quotes and blows them out of proportion, and maybe this information fromGambitproducerSimon Kinberg is just that, so I’m going to start by letting his quote speak for itself with the full context available to me.
“When you look at Gambit he’s a hustler and a womanizer and we just felt like there was an attitude, a swagger to him, that lent itself to romantic comedy …Deadpoolwas an R-rated, raunchy comedy,Loganwas a western,Gambit’s gonna be a romantic comedy, andNew Mutantsis very decidedly a horror film … You know, when I say romantic comedy, I use that term loosely, in the same term that I use the term western forLoganloosely. It’s not like they’re gunslingers at high noon inLogan. It’s just a vibe. And I would say the vibe ofGambithas a romantic or sex comedy vibe to it. While it is also still very much a superhero movie with villains and heroes, as all these movies are.”
First off,Loganisn’t loosely a western, it is a western. You don’t need cowboy hats and swinging saloon doors to be a western, Simon.
Second, I’m not a big Gambit fan from the comics, but I’m not sure I ever thought of a romantic comedy with him in it when I did see the character. In fact, his relationship with Rogue is one of the most heartfelt and powerful in all of comics, not something you’d play for laughs with a stupid sex joke about not being able to touch each other (not to say Rogue has even been confirmed for the film). I guess since Channing Tatumwill play Gambitthere’s some hope that he’ll be able to steer away from cringey into charm, but I had thought with his casting we’d get something more than a Cajun drawl and bad puns about playing cards.
Third, this may or may not happen. Fox is going full steam ahead withGambit, reshoots onNew Mutantsto make the film scarier, a screenplay for aMultiple Manmovie, and the upcomingDeadpoolsequel,X-Force, but Disney has already said that the only films safe when they take overwill be the ones already in productionso pretty much anything not shooting could be ditched altogether. Rom-comGambitmay never see the light of day.
Overall, Fox and Kinberg are hit and miss with their approach to characters in the X-Men universe.DeadpoolandLoganare amazing examples of going outside the box, but this guy also wroteFantastic Four. I’m not entirely sure they learned the right lessons from those films if this is the direction they’re going with Gambit.
