Gambit: 10 Lessons It Must Learn From X-Men Failures

3. Be Light On Continuity

Similarly, the X-Men films need to stop caring about continuity so much. Not in the same way that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was just gleefully ignorant of everything that happened before and after it, recasting characters and mucking up the established timeline like it was going out of style, but not being quite as obsessed with making everything work as a cohesive fictional universe as Days Of Future Past was. That film was a lot of fun, but it was also a ninety minute reboot happening in real time. We're past that now. The Gambit solo film has the opportunity to open up a whole new avenue for Fox's X-Men cinematic universe (which, it's been rumoured, could end up crossing over with their upcoming Fantastic Four films). The rest of the franchise has been one big, epic story, and it's been worse off because of that. Everything had to have the same tone, similar characters, the same themes, because it was following a single line of continuity. Gambit is a spin-off. I should be something different, something new.