It looks like 20th Century Fox has finally found a director for its Channing Tatum-led Gambit movie, with Entertainment Weekly reporting that Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) has signed on to helm the X-Men spin-off.
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Gambit has been written by Joshua Zetumer from a treatment by legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont, and will see Tatum taking on the role of the Cajun mutant remy LeBeau, who was portrayed by Taylor Kitsch in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Gambit is set for release on October 7th 2016, and is one of three X-Men movies arriving next year – the others being Deadpool, out on February 12th, and X-Men: Apocalypse, which hits cinemas on May 19th in the UK and May 27th in the States.