

Josh Zetumer has penned the latest draft of the screenplay, and Fox must be pretty happy with it if they’ve given the movie an official release date. The script will be written by the guy who did the new Robocop. Tatum’s Gambit will definitely be a part of all that, and rumors even suggest that he may even appear in X-Men: Apocalypse, which will precede Gambit in May 2016. The character will be a part of the X-Men movie universe.Īfter how well-received Days of Future Past‘s timeline-hopping crossover was, Fox is very keen on continuing to expand their X-Men movie-verse.

We’re feeling our way, and really just kind of proving the concept of that person. You know, when you try to do something different you never really know, right off the bat, what that is. We want to introduce this character in a very different way. We’re obviously going to go to the saving the world superhero movies eventually, but maybe not for the first one. We really do want to try our hardest to give something fresh. I don’t want to give too much away because we don’t know that much right now other than…we obviously know who Gambit is. It will likely be an origin story, but Tatum says their approach to the character is “fresh.”Ī few months back, Tatum told MTV News that: Tatum is also the one who revealed the release date, confirming suspicions that the movie would placed in Fox’s empty Octoslot. Now that we have a solid release date, here’s everything else we know so far.

The exact date is October 7, which will place it a few months after X-Men: Apocalypse, the storyline that was teased in the post-credits scene of the last installment. Today an official release date was revealed, bringing a second X-movie to 2016. A standalone X-Men film starring Gambit movie is inching closer to reality.
