Rumor: Channing Tatum Courting Doug Liman to Direct Gambit

According to The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider, Channing Tatum – the man who will play Remy LeBeau a.k.a. Gambit, and also produce the film – has been courting Edge of Tomorrow and The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman.

 Whether or not Liman will accept the job is, of course, unclear, yet given how soon production will need to begin, the odds are good that an announcement about Gambit’s director will be made soon enough.



20th Century Fox will release three Marvel movies in 2016: Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Gambit. As more and more information continues to be released about Tim Miller’s Deadpool and Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse, Gambit is still in pre-production and not much is yet known about the Ragin’ Cajun’s solo movie. Gambit’s lead actor, Channing Tatum, has been passionate about the X-Men spin-off movie, but the studio has yet to find the right director.

Rupert Wyatt, the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was set to helm, but he’s no longer directing the project because of creative differences. With Gambit’s release date of October, 2016 quickly approaching, the studio clearly needs to land a director soon. Now, it’s looking like Tatum and the studio have their sights set on a director who has proven to be more than capable of handling action sequences.