Gambit: 4 Reasons It Could Be Awesome (And 4 Why It Could Suck)
3. It's Finally Got A Good Director
It's been a turbulent recruitment process, with more than its fair share of high profile passes and one actual resignation from the project, but Doug Liman is finally settling in as director. He's not a household name, but Liman is a solid choice for Fox, a safe pair of hands with proven success across the action movie genre. He directed The Bourne Identity, made Mr & Mrs Smith enjoyable despite the teeth-grindingly awful original concept and managed to give a Tom Cruise character a personality for the first time in over a decade in Edge Of Tomorrow. He might not be an auteur like Nolan or a cult hero like Raimi, but at least he's not completely untested like Marc Webb of Josh Trank either, and at this stage Fox really needs someone who can craft an enjoyable cinematic experience that they can build on down the line. Joe Johnston's work with Captain America: The First Avenger should be Fox's touchstone at this point, an enjoyable romp that invests the audience in a character the world at whole only knows by sight. Looking at his filmography, Liman seems like he ticks those boxes and then some.
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