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Simon Kinberg talks Deadpool 2, Gambit and Legion

August 6, 2016 by Gary Collinson

During an interview with Slash Film, X-Verse “architect” Simon Kinberg has provided an update on several upcoming X-Men projects in Deadpool 2, Gambit and the Marvel-produced TV series Legion.

“I think Deadpool 2 will comment on anything that’s happening in movies today especially in superhero movies,” said Kinberg. “The sort of glut or saturation of these movies and the proliferation of sequels is definitely something we’ll play around with.”

Kinberg also provided an update on the casting of Cable, stating that: “I’ve seen rumors from about everybody from Arnold Schwarzenegger to I can’t even remember. We haven’t cast him is the truth.”

He then went on to discuss the oft-delayed, Channing Tatum-headlined Gambit movie, which was originally planned to hit cinemas this October, and is now looking at a potential spring 2017 start date:

“I think the truth is when you have these movies that need a very special and unique tone, it takes a little while to find that tone. Deadpool feels like it exploded out of nowhere but it was a ten-year development process on that movie. I think it was honed over those ten years. I hope that Gambit doesn’t take ten years but it takes a little honing to get that tone and that voice exactly right. The character has such a specific voice in the comic in the same way that Deadpool has a specific voice in the comic, that we want to make sure that we capture that voice on the page. Really it’s just about getting a screenplay that is worthy of that character and I think we’re really close right now.”

Kinberg also explained the origin of the TV series Legion, which is slated to premiere on FX in early 2017: “Legion came out of a conversation that Noah Hawley and I had when I was in Moscow for the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Noah was somebody I really admired and we were talking about doing X-Men TV shows. We had a bunch of different ideas. Legion wasn’t one of them and Noah said to me, ‘I want to do Breaking Bad in the superhero world. I want to actually tell the story about the origin of essentially a villain.’ It evolved from there and became Legion.”

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Originally published August 6, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Gambit, Legion, X-Men

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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