In this Nov. 11, 2014 file photo, actor Channing Tatum attends a special screening of “Foxcatcher,” hosted by the Cinema Society with Details and Brooks Brothers, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Evan Agostini, Invision via AP)
Laissez les bon temps rouler.
Twentieth Century Fox has “Gambit,” a spinoff from the X-Men franchise, date, according to Variety.
The movie, starring Channing Tatum (“21 Jump Street,” “Magic Mike”) in the titular role, will be Fox’s eighth X-Men movie, following “X-Men: Apocalypse,” which is set to be released on May 27, 2016.
In the comic books, Gambit has the ability to charge objects to its full potential energy and make them explode. His weapons of choice are playing cards.
Taylor Kitsch played Gambit in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
