Still a superhero movie, though.
In an interview IGN, Producer Simon Kinberg stated that the Gambit standalone movie will have a romantic comedy feel to it. Which Kinberg, also writer-director on the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix, is due to the nature of the character.
When you look at Gambit, he’s a hustler and a womanizer and we just felt like there was an attitude, a swagger to him, that lent itself to romantic comedy.
He went on to say that the studio has been letting the tone of the character work towards the film, in a similar way to Logan and Deadpool. Mostly due to the fact that both of those movies were hits.
Deadpool was an R-rated, raunchy comedy, Logan was a western, Gambit’s gonna be a romantic comedy, and New Mutants is very decidedly a horror film.
You know, when I say romantic comedy, I use that term loosely, in the same term that I use the term western for Logan loosely,” Kinberg said, “It’s not like they’re gunslingers at high noon in Logan. It’s just a vibe. And I would say the vibe of Gambit has a romantic or sex comedy vibe to it. While it is also still very much a superhero movie with villains and heroes, as all these movies are.
Despite the looming Disney merger, Fox is still hard at work on all of these movies, too, according to Kinberg.
Gambit has a great script and we’re looking to start that movie early next year. Multiple Man, that script’s being worked on right now.
And regarding X-Force:
[…] we’re just waiting for Drew Goddard to be done with releasing his film that comes out in a few weeks, and then he’ll get started on that script to direct.
Source: IGN
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