costume designer Jenny Beavan, who has also signed on for Gambit duties.

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February 2019 release, with filming expected to kick off early next year. Gonchor’s appointment is a crucial step in getting the movie made, at long last, meaning that the look and physical feel of the film can now begin to come together.

Considering that Gonchor has worked on a lot of gritty Coen Brothers dramas, in addition to the fact that Jenny Beavan designed the costumes for Mad Max: Fury Road, it’s easy to assume that Gambit is gearing towards a grounded, grungy aesthetic. This chimes nicely with the news that some Gambit scenes will be shot on location in New Orleans, which lends itself to a more true-to-life feel than a studio back lot. Certainly, a ragged and realistic visual style would help banish audiences’ memories of the previous live-action Gambit adaptation: as fans will , Taylor Kitsch played the part in the green-screen-heavy nightmare X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

However, it is worth ing that director Gore Verbinski has a very varied list of films under his belt. As well as the shot-on-location 2016 thriller A Cure For Wellness, he has also helmed comedies (like Nic Cage’s The Weather Man) and studio behemoths including the first three Pirates of the Carribean films. He’s a tough man to put in a box and could well be cooking up something utterly unexpected with Gambit.

Fox’s X-Men spinoffs Deadpool and Logan showed that the studio is willing to take some risks and try new things with its solo mutant movies. By appointing the likes of Verbinski, Beavan and now Gonchor – none of whom have been previously associated with comic book movies – it’s clear that the studio wants Gambit to break the mold as well. It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out.

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