After a batch of potential names emerged a while ago for a key role opposite Channing Tatum in Fox’s Gambit film, it appears we have a front-runner. Léa Seydoux has been offered the part of Belladonna Bourdreaux.
Tatum is realising his long-held ambition to play the smooth-talking, kinetic energy-utilising X-Men rogue better known as Remy LeBeau, with Rupert Wyatt on board to direct and Josh Zetumer writing the script based on a treatment from comic book stalwart Chris Claremont. Though this is planned as a stand-alone film and, in Tatum’s opinion, should present a twist on the usual superhero outing – since Gambit’s hardly a by-the-book kind of man – there’s every chance his character will end up meeting his future X-Men colleagues at some point down the line.
And, assuming she makes a deal, Seydoux will be Bourdreaux, a long-time friend and love-interest for Gambit, who is a member of an Assassin’s Guild (whereas LeBeau was in the Thieves’ Guild). In the comics, theirs has been a star-crossed love, though they did at least get to marry at one point in the continuity, even if their happiness was shattered when her brother Julien challenged Gambit to a duel to the death, one that didn’t end well for Julien). The movie will likely pick and choose what it decides to use for their story, and whether she’ll gain powers as she has in the comics.
Wyatt is scheduled to start shooting later this year for an October 7, 2016 release date. Seydoux is part of the cast for the latest Bond outing, Spectre, which is out here on October 26. Just before that, she’ll be seen in oddball romantic drama The Lobster, out October 16.
from Empire News
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