{"id":81958,"date":"2015-11-13T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=81958"},"modified":"2015-11-13T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T10:28:07","slug":"gambit-movie-starring-channing-tatum-finally-gets-a-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/gambit-movie-starring-channing-tatum-finally-gets-a-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum finally gets a director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>X-Men<\/strong><\/em> spin-off movie <em><strong>Gambit<\/strong> <\/em>has been all over the place recently. Rupert Wyatt was director, then he wasn&#8217;t, then Channing Tatum seemed to drop out of the lead role, then he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But things are once again starting to come back together. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/channing-tatums-gambit-finds-new-828590\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has confirmed that Doug Liman will be directing the film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman.jpg\" alt=\"Director Doug Liman attends The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awards gala at Cipriani's 42nd Street on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo\/Evan Agostini)\" width=\"1296\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman-616x347.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/doug_liman-510x286.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liman, whose biggest credits include <em><strong>The Edge Of Tomorrow<\/strong><\/em>, Mr And Mrs Smith and The Bourne Identity, is reportedly in final negotiations with Fox after several rounds of meetings.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0will be directing Tatum as Remy LeBeau, also known as card-throwing hero Gambit, as well as Lea Seydoux, who is rumoured to be playing Bella Donna Boudreaux.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gambit <\/em>i<em>s <\/em>in UK and US cinemas on 7 October 2016. Get all the latest superhero movie news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3903\/s\/scifinow-issue-112\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edge Of Tomorrow director is joining the Gambit movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":81962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4129],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-13-at-10.24.04.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}