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“Deadpool 2” Pushed Up Two Weeks as “New Mutants” Moves to 2019 and Channing Tatum’s “Gambit” Gets a Summer Date
Channing Tatum’s Gambit was also given a new release date following Gore Verbinski’s abrupt exit earlier Thursday morning.
Tatum is producing the comic book movie so he has a bit more say than he normally would, and I’m sure the storyboards are already finished. I’m hardly saying directing is easy, but we’ve underestimated Tatum his entire career. He just might be able to pull this off, and he’s also been looking to get behind the camera, too.
Lea Seydoux had previously been cast as the superhero film’s female lead back when Rupert Wyatt was directing the comic book movie for 20th Century Fox.
Opening the same Feb. weekend in which “Deadpool” was a huge hit, and opening against Rebel Wilson’s rom-com “Isn’t It Romantic?”
Channing Tatum is still slated to play Marvel’s popular cajun mutant Remy LeBeau from the “X-Men” comics, but at one point, this spin-off movie was scheduled to be released today.
