Simon Kinberg On GAMBIT And DEADPOOL's Connection To X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Simon Kinberg On GAMBIT And DEADPOOL's Connection To X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Simon Kinberg dives into how Deadpool, Gambit and Fantastic Four connect to X-Men: Apocalypse. Obviously, this interview from the set of Apocalypse is from well before Fantastic Four was released.

By MarkJulian - Jan 21, 2016 07:01 AM EST
Filed Under: X-Men: Apocalypse
Source: Joblo

Alongside Bryan Singer and Laura Shula Donner, one of the hands shaping the X-Men cinematic universe for 20th Century Fox is producer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg.  When asked to explain how films like Gambit, Deadpool, Fantastic Four and the forthcoming solo Wolverine film fit into the new timeline created by Days of Future Past, Kinberg reassured that everything (sans Fantastic Four) fits.

"Well this movie take space chronologically before those other films, so it’s more like those films have to acknowledge this than we acknowledge Gambit, Deadpool, or Fantastic Four or anything else that exists within the sort of Fox/Marvel universe. But I work on all of those films in one capacity or another, either as a producer on all of them and as a writer on Fantastic Four and this movie, so I’m certainly aware of all the different stories we’re telling at the same time, and they all are part of a larger fabric now, and so the world of Deadpool, the world of Gambit, exists in a post-Days of Future Past post-Apocalypse world where all of these stories are the same as our shared history. The same way that each of us of different ages knows about Nixon and knows about Reagan and knows about 9/11, our fictitious events like the stadium dropping on the White House in 1973 is part of the world in which Gambit, Deadpool, Wolverine on forward exists."



X-Men: Apocalypse arrives in theaters on May 27, 2016.

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KikinGonzalez
KikinGonzalez - 1/21/2016, 8:11 AM
I would love to see Deadpool popping up on a X-Men movie
MrPositive
MrPositive - 1/21/2016, 8:11 AM
"FANTASTIC FOUR"
TheEpicJuicebox
TheEpicJuicebox - 1/21/2016, 8:17 AM
Fantastic four what a joke hahahahaha
GrilledPopcorn
GrilledPopcorn - 1/21/2016, 8:18 AM
i hated the idea of Channing as Gambit but after seeing him in The Hateful Eight, I think he might pull off Gambit.
RockBottom
RockBottom - 1/21/2016, 8:20 AM
As far as I'm concerned, Fan4stic. Never happened. It never existed and it never will.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 1/21/2016, 8:22 AM
LOL!!!!!! @Gusto

Such a jerk!
Kr08
Kr08 - 1/21/2016, 8:30 AM
He was really pushing Fantastic Four. Fox is definitely still moving forward with the Fantastic Four franchise, but it's either a reboot with new actor or the same actors. I say keep the actors and retcon the whole thing to fit X-Men.
nibs
nibs - 1/21/2016, 8:34 AM
So am I the only one that is certain the Fantastic Four had a plot orchestrated against it by other movie companies led by Disney?

I'm not saying it was a good movie, it wasn't, but it was just as good as a lot of the shit that gets made. It's better than a few MCU entries for that matter. The 9% RT score and 4 on IMDB and low box office, they all seem incredibly manufactured.

Just my weird thoughts.
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - 1/21/2016, 8:34 AM
Fantastic Four will sit alongside X-Men Origins Wolverine and X-Men 3 as the forgotten films in the Fox-Verse.

And to be honest, now that Days of Future Past wiped away any relevance of the decent but flawed The Wolverine, I'm putting that film too in the forgotten pile.

It's almost like Fox doesn't give a crap about building a universe. Hm...
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - 1/21/2016, 8:37 AM
@nibs

gethylogic
gethylogic - 1/21/2016, 8:37 AM
Wait, Fan4stic had a story???
WeaponMental
WeaponMental - 1/21/2016, 8:38 AM
I already forgot what this article is about. Is it too late to scroll up again??
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - 1/21/2016, 8:38 AM
@Doopie

Compared to Fox, DC has its ish together!

I mean, look, I think by the end of the year, the DCEU or JLU will be a fully functioning, interconnected universe. That will make sense!
rabid
rabid - 1/21/2016, 8:38 AM
@nibs
I'm with you. Someone involved in production blocked funding and tanked it on purpose.
If Matthew Vaughn gets a Marvel film to direct, we'll know who the culprit is.
Disney is tricky like that. I'm convinced they were funding the molestation allegations against Singer, and Wired magazine caught them being involved in the Sony hack.
DEVWoulf
DEVWoulf - 1/21/2016, 8:39 AM
@GrilledPopcorn

Same here. Channing is becoming a better actor we know, but after seeing Hateful Eight I think he will do great. He'll be like that character but a good guy with more screen time to develop. Hopefully he can get a little slimming because Gambit should be a tall, lean guy IMO. Usually actors that love and lobby for a role do great because of their passion for the character so I'm actually excited to see what happens. Fox is trying to turn Gambit into the main star of the X-Men after Jackman leaves so they know this is no joke, this is the future at stake.
rabid
rabid - 1/21/2016, 8:48 AM
The RT score for F4 is appropriate. But if we could break it up and rate by job performance, I'd give it a 90% for Trank's work and 1% for Kinberg's reshoots. Without seeing Trank's original film, I can only presume that it was at one time as great as the other parts he did film.
I really want to see Trank's version, not what Fox gave us.
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - 1/21/2016, 8:49 AM
What's with all the conspiracy theories?

Look at the history of executive meddling at Fox Studios in regards to their comic book movies.

The only reason Days of Future Past was good is because Singer has clout and has more leverage.

And Deadpool only cost something like $70 million to make, so the studio gave the filmmakers more freedom.

Fantastic Four was a mess because the executives at Fox are idiots, because Trank couldn't execute his vision - say what you want about his personal life, but the movie released is not the one Trank wanted to make.

As said time and again, no studio wants a bad super hero film, because it reflects poorly on all super hero films.
Mikeg1965
Mikeg1965 - 1/21/2016, 8:58 AM
@nibs I would agree that F4 was no worse than the earlier Marvel Films Punisher, Electra, Ghost Rider (All of them).
nibs
nibs - 1/21/2016, 8:58 AM
@psychoticspaceraccoon

It was better than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Jonah Hex, RIPD, Ghost Rider, or 300 2: Rise of an Empire, and those movies are all scored higher. In most cases WAY higher.

Again, I'm not saying it was good. It was bad. But so are most movies, and none of them get shit on like F4 did. And the media blitz against it began WAY before the movie came out.
SteveBosell
SteveBosell - 1/21/2016, 9:10 AM
While deeply flawed, I saw potential in Fantastic 4. It's a shame Trank's vision was ruined.
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