So it looks like Gambit is getting a spin-off movie. The card-flinging, Cajun-speaking, New Orleans-born pick-up-artist has been one of the most divisive and inexplicably popular members of the X-Men introduced during the comics' resurgence in the early nineties, appearing in the phenomenally popular animated series and countless video games and action figures guises. He already making a big screen appearance, too, played by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (generally considered to be the nadir of the franchise in all respects). Well, presumably thanks to all those time travelling reboots in Days Of Future Past, Kitsch is out and Channing Tatum has been cast as Remy LeBeau, due to debut in the next X-Film proper, Apocalypse, before getting his own solo flick. Which is pretty brave, considering how terrible his last appearance in a solo X-Men film was, and rather daring for a series that has only just gotten back on track after a bunch of painfully mediocre-to-awful entries. Tatum's a great actor, the character has potential, but Fox have definitely mucked up worse before with better raw materials. What's to stop them making the same mistake thrice? Here are the ten lessons the Gambit movie has to learn from previous X-Men movie failures.
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