Last week we found out that Fox's Gambit movie had suffered another major blow when it was announced that director Rupert Wyatt had parted ways with the project. At the time both parties claimed the reason for the split had to do with script complications, which in turn led to an increased budget, ultimately delaying production and causing a conflict with one of Wyatt's prior commitments.
Well, a new report from THR paints a slightly different picture.
According to them, although the studio got on well with Wyatt ("He shows up. He comes early. He stays late. He's got good ideas"), the Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes director simply had a very different vision for what he wanted to do with the character, and Fox wasn't prepared to allow him to have creative control. That's not unusual when you're dealing with a massive $100 million superhero movie of course, but evidently Waytt wasn't going to compromise his concept for anyone and chose to walk away - something the trade notes he has done in the past on projects such as The Equalizer, The Terminal Spy, and Dawn Of The Planet The Apes.
Gambit will star Channing Tatum as the titular card-flinging Cajun, and Lea Seydoux as Belladonna Boudreaux, and has a release date set for October 7, 2016... for the time being, anyway.
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