re: Channing Tatum confirmed as Gambit in stand-alone X-Men movie.

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If only there was a way to get background into a movie...

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But the amount of background you need is akin to shrinking the core of Wolverine's character into the first 15 minutes of Origins. It didn't work and the entire shift of the film suffered. Granted that movie has more problems than that.

The issue is the starting point for Gambit. For Wolverine it works, because his origin, primarily, is focused around is initial amnesia. So it was natural to introduce and focus on Wolverine as we did in X1-X2 and his further films. His evolution needed him to kind of come in blind.

Gambit is kind of redeemed by the X-Men in his first appearance, and his identity is kind of centered on that redemption. The problem is the "stand alone" part. Without his introduction that kind of redemption won't be tied to the team.

And the Thieve's Guild is uniquely related to the X-verse, we're talking Sinister, Shadow King, etc. Without proper set up I just don't think he works isolated and without a good introduction movie.

So I'm not saying you can't do background in a film, but in an intended "Stand alone" film, if you follow the Gambit story, it's going to seem really cheesy and terrible. It's going to come off again like a patchwork for these movies rather than a unified whole.