It seems that all we do at the minute is write about Simon Kinberg, but hey, he’s working on the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Star Wars movies, so it’s going to happen, right? Right.
Anyway, he’s been chatting about the whole Channing Tatum as Gambit thing: “Gambit is still in-motion and being figured out. Channing made it known that it was a character that he loved and would love to play, and all the people who work on the X-Men movies are huge fans of his, so the notion of him playing it is exciting. I’m more fascinated by anti-heroes, and Gambit is one of those. I don’t know why he wasn’t explored in the original X-Men movies. Maybe the reason why was because they wanted to focus on Rogue/Bobby or the platonic Rogue/Wolverine relationship, and maybe there were too many similarities between Wolverine and Gambit, so in order to make it a Wolverine-centric franchise they had to cut him loose”
Talking about controversial casting (we were shocked at the mixed reactions to Tatum’s casting as Gambit on our social pages), Kinberg also talked about the casting of Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four reboot. He also talked a bit about what the movie will be like (again): “The tone of this movie will feel as unique as when you saw Iron Man, X-Men, or Batman Begins for the first time. It’s not as goofy as the first movies; it has humor in it, but the humor is much more real and comes from character, not pratfall jokes. It’s a much more dramatic film than it is a comedy. I would say it falls somewhere between Raimi’s first couple of Spider-Man movies and Chronicle.”
On Jordan’s casting as Storm: “We knew casting an African-American Human Torch would be news, but I can tell you it’s something that Stan Lee loves, and I can also tell you that having been on set and seeing Michael bring him to life, he’s really spectacular. He’s doing something really cool with the character that I think will become the iconic Johnny Storm.”
Well if Stan Lee likes it then who the heck are we to argue?
Source: The Daily Beast
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