{"id":46524,"date":"2017-11-20T19:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T03:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=46524"},"modified":"2017-12-22T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T06:07:50","slug":"lizzy-caplan-in-talks-to-join-channing-tatum-in-gore-verbinskis-gambit-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=46524","title":{"rendered":"Lizzy Caplan in talks to join Channing Tatum in Gore Verbinski&#8217;s GAMBIT film."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/news\/lizzy-caplan-channing-tatum-gambit-1202619355\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> reveals that Emmy-nominated actress <strong>Lizzy Caplan<\/strong> (Masters of Sex) is in talks to join the cast of director Gore Verbinski&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/gambit\/\">GAMBIT<\/a><\/strong> in an unspecified lead role.<\/p>\n<p>While it hasn&#8217;t been revealed who the actress will be playing, it&#8217;s likely she&#8217;ll portray <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bella_Donna_(comics)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bella Donna Boudreaux<\/a>. The character was originally appeared in earlier iterations of the film&#8217;s screenplay. In the comics, the Bella Donna is a childhood friend of Gambit, who comes from a rival guild. In hopes to join the guilds of thieves and assassins, respectively, their parents arrange for them to be married.<\/p>\n<p>Another character option could possibly be a rebooted version of Anna Paquin&#8217;s Rogue, but the chances of that casting seem very slim of actually happening.<\/p>\n<p>The X-Men solo film will star Channing Tatum as the popular Cajun mutant <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gambit_(comics)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remy LeBeau<\/a><\/strong>, who has the ability to manipulate kinetic energy. The role was previously portrayed by Taylor Kitsch in the critically-panned &#8220;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&#8221; in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gambit&#8221; begins filming early next year for a February 14, 2019 theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/news\/lizzy-caplan-channing-tatum-gambit-1202619355\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety reveals that Emmy-nominated actress Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex) is in talks to join&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Actress Lizzy Caplan in talks to join Channing Tatum in #XMen spinoff #GAMBIT.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,15,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casting","category-crew-talk","category-gambit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Storm-X-Men-Comics-Logo-Picture.jpg?fit=1920%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}