LSD: In our wildest dreams we wanted it to be a franchise. We wanted it to be able to spin-off
there's 40 years of comics but I'lll tell you because we never previewed it, there was a day when Bryan [Singer], myself, our editor and, I think Tom Rothman was in the room, and we all looked at each other and said, We'll never work again. Because, we didn't know what we had.
IESB: Rothman recently said though The Last Stand was the last of that group of X-Men, I asked him, well we never saw Gambit, we never saw a lot of these great heroes, future ensemble films, young mutants or anything, what's in the pipeline for this franchise?
LSD: I can't say...[laughter]
IESB: Will we ever see Gambit?
LSD: Probably, you know, the reason we didn't use Gambit was because in a sense his persona is a bit like Wolverine in that he's got attitude and his power is not quite as exciting as the others. That's why we went to Nightcrawler on 2 because he looked different than everybody else and he had a great power. So yes, I think we would weave Gambit within our story, it wouldn't be The Gambit Movie. I mean, I love him and remember in Lost the guy, what's his name, there was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the straight hair, good-looking, the bad boy, Sawyer, Sawyer [Josh Holloway]. (A lot of Lost forums have been buzzing about this casting rumor for some time). |
