Tag: Gambit
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The X-Men Movies Almost Changed Rogue In The Comics
For as long as I’ve known the X-Men, Rogue has been one of my favorite members of the team. It was her white-streaked hair and charming Southern Belle accent that first caught my notice, but what makes Rogue endure is her tortured soul.Her untamed powers, to lethally absorb the vitality, memories, and superabilities of other…
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Why Taylor Kitsch’s Gambit Only Appeared In X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Director Gavin Hood’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” even teed up potential spinoffs by introducing Ryan Reynolds as a pre-Deadpool Wade Wilson and Taylor Kitsch as the Ragin’ Cajun himself, the smooth-talking, card-chucking thief Remy LeBeau, better known as Gambit.Pulling what we’d now call a “Black Adam,” Hood’s prequel did indeed change the hierarchy of Fox’s X-Men…
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Cool Stuff: Hasbro Unveils X-Men ’97 Marvel Legends Action Figures With Updated Animated Looks
Even though the X-Men haven’t made their debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe yet, the team of mutants will be coming to Disney+ with a dose of nostalgia this fall in the form of the “X-Men ’97” animated series. Picking up where the original X-Men animated series from the ’90s left off, we’ll be catching up…
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The Scrapped Gambit Movie Would Have Been ‘Mutant Goodfellas In New Orleans’
In the list of movies I’d like to have seen, the Channing Tatum-led “Gambit” is up there. One, because Tatum has enough charm to pull off my favorite character from “X-Men: The Animated Series,” and two, because of what “Gambit” co-writer Reid Carolin told The Playlist (via Heroic Hollywood) about the story we would have seen in…
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Channing Tatum Won’t Watch Marvel Movies After ‘Gambit’ Cancellation: ‘I Was So Traumatized’
As the Marvel universe continues to expand at a rapid pace, it seems like a new Hollywood star is cast as a superhero every day. In fact, it’s almost rarer to find an A-list star who is not developing a comic book movie. Channing Tatum occupies that rarified air, and the “Magic Mike” star does…
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The 20 Best Heist Movies Of All Time
Heist movies transcend genre. You can have frivolous, fun heist movies like “The Italian Job,” or heartfelt, straight-faced ones like “Point Break.” The heist itself can be meticulously planned and meditative, like the one in “Inside Man,” or fall apart before it’s even begun, as in “Good Time.”To be clear, this is a list of…
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‘Dark’ Season 3 Review: Brilliant Netflix Sci-Fi Series Gets a Masterful Farewell Season Remix
[Note: The following review contains mild spoilers for Season 3 of “Dark.”]The greatest trick nested within “Dark” is what it manages to make inevitable. Even before the third and final season of the German-language Netflix sci-fi time travel epic, each new wrinkle has arrived with a shock, but also with the storytelling confidence that this…
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Remembering Alvin Sargent, the Extraordinary Screenwriter Behind ‘Ordinary People’
How many screenwriters in Hollywood can claim to have written a popular film that connects with a new generation each decade for half a century? Alvin Sargent — who passed away on May 9 at the age of 92 — began writing for television in the mid-1950s; was off to the races from his first…
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Alvin Sargent, Oscar-Winning ‘Julia’ and ‘Ordinary People’ Screenwriter, Dies at 92
Academy Award winner Alvin Sargent, who penned an extraordinary number of popular and critically successful films, from “Paper Moon” and “Ordinary People” to the “Spider-Man” sequels of the 2000s, died Thursday, his talent agency Gersh confirmed to Variety. He was 92.Sargent won adapted screenplay Oscars for “Julia” in 1978 and “Ordinary People” in 1981 and…
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Channing Tatum Reportedly Interested In Directing The Long-Delayed ‘Gambit’ Film
We are fast approaching the five-year anniversary of the first time we reported that Channing Tatum is in line to play the “X-Men” character Gambit in a solo film. Since then, the film project has gone through constant changes, gaining directors, losing directors, getting a scheduled release date, and then, of course, losing that release…