Vi här på redaktionen hade naturligtvis hoppats på att det skulle bli i princip vem som helst förutom just Gore Verbinski som skulle koppla grepp om kameran inför den stundande inspelningen av Fox kommande Gambit-rulle (med Channing Tatum i huvudrollen som den kortkastande Marvel-piskaren). Men ja, ibland får man inte som man önskar, och i fallet Gambit förmodar vi i och med detta att det kommer att handla om en ganska medioker film. Gore står nämligen bakom rullar som The Lone Ranger, A Cure For Wellness samt Pirates of the Caribbean: Vid världens ände (som vi alla anser vara högst mediokra filmer, alla tre).
Tydligen kommer Gambit: Da Movie att påminna om en Oceans-film där Gambit ska knycka några värdefulla prylar och måste planera en himla massa inför sin tuffa stöt, åtminstone enligt de rykten som idag existerar. Såhär beskrivs handlingen i ett läckt story-dokument.
"Remy Lebeau (Channing Tatum) is on trial in New-Orleans. He's considered a huge security risk. We flashback to almost 25 years before. Master thief Luke Lebeau runs into eight-year-old Gambit while doing a heist. Impressed by his skills, he offers to take the mutant orphan under his wings. Raised alongside other strays he calls "cousins", the teenage Gambit becomes the superstar of the Thief Guild. He encounters Bella Donna Boudreaux while on the run from the police. Sparks immediately fly since Bella is also a fellow mutant. Their love is directly prohibited by both families since the Boudreaux are sworn enemies of the Lebeau clan. Deciding to unite the two sides, Remy offers to have the two clans team up on a HUGE heist to profit both families. Of course, the whole plan goes awry, and in the chaos, Maryanne Boudreaux shoots and kill Luke Lebeau.
We jump to 10 years later; Gambit is hired to do a job in Paris to steal something from the Louvre Museum. It was apparently a test job to see if he still has it. His mysterious employer is revealed to be Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Mr. Sinister. He offers Gambit 40 million to recover a mysterious trunk that was stolen by the Boudreaux clan. It will be auctioned off during the yearly Thieves Ball where all the criminal organizations in the world meet up. It uses New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebrations as a cover. Gambit decides to enlist a crew of mutants to pull off this seemingly impossible heist."
Vad tror du om Gambit och kan Gore vara rätt för det här jobbet, enligt dig?
Vi förmodar att Gambit inte kommer att slänga särskilt många rosa-glittrande spelkort i själva filmadaptionen. Eller vad tror du?