‘Gambit’ Turns On That Cajun Charm, Convinces Director Doug Liman To Take The Job
By Jacob Hall/Nov. 13, 2015 5:30 am EST
And lo and behold, one of those directors has apparently taken the gig. Doug Liman, the director of The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow, has taken the gig. Hopefully, whatever scared everyone else away won’t affect Liman, who has a reputation for having stood firm through his fair share of troubled productions.
Hit the jump for more news on the new Gambit director.
The news that Liman is nearing a deal to direct the first solo adventure of Remy LeBeau, the mutant superhero who can charge any object with kinetic energy, comes to us via The Hollywood Reporter. Now, Liman and his infinitely charming star have a major task ahead of them: they must make Gambit remotely interesting to anyone who doesn’t have ’90s comic and cartoon nostalgia. Gambit kinda stinks. But Liman and Tatum? Sign us up.
Although Liman has a reputation for running a disorderly set, it’s often hard to argue with the results. Edge of Tomorrow is one of the most exciting and unique mainstream science fiction films of the past few years, The Bourne Identity is a bonafide action classic, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a robust action movie brimming with personality. He also made Jumper, but we can’t hold that against him. Nobody even saw it, so it might as well not exist. Right now, he’s wrapping up Mena, the Tom Cruise-starring drug smuggling drama that’s set to open in January of 2017. In other words, the movie he’s finishing right now will come out three months after the superhero movie he’ll be shooting next. Yikes.
Gambit is scheduled for an October 7, 2016 release date.
