Erroneous reports or just public negotiating? Either way, while the initial buzz last week was that Channing Tatum was close to dropping out of the Gambit film after becoming a producer last year and attached to star in the title role, things have now solidified and the contract has been finalized for the film. The Hollywood Reporter notes that there were issues during the negotiations that were going on last week but that the level of problems were pretty much blown out of proportion and now everyone is saying it’s all part of the normal back and forth of the business. Part of it was backend compensation, which is always a tricky situation. Additionally,
“One thing that needed figuring out was the extent of Tatum’s involvement in the X-Men universe. Fox sees Tatum’s Gambit, a mutant who harnesses kinetic energy, as one of the anchor characters of the X-universe, akin to Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, someone who would anchor his own movies and appear in numerous others. It’s a commitment that could theoretically last more than a decade. (Jackman has been portraying Wolverine since 2000, for instance.)”
The film is scheduled for an October 7th, 2015 bow and that means things have to get figured out soon as it’s going into full on production mode soon enough.
