While it's Still Stuck in Development Purgatory, a Rumored GAMBIT Plot Had the Makings of a Big Heist Movie

It's been several years since GAMBIT was first in development as a solo X-Men spin-off movie at Fox. The studio has been through several directors and script rewrites but actor Channing Tatum is still attached to the project in the title role as Remy Lebeau.

Right now, the film is still in development purgatory with no sign of getting out of it right now.

The website SplashReport, have what seems to be one of the rumored plot outlines for GAMBIT and it definitely sounds like a big time heist movie. Here's the rumored outline:

"Remy Lebeau (Channing Tatum) is on trial in New-Orleans [sic]. He’s considered a huge security risk. We flashback to almost 25 years before. Master thief Luke Lebeau runs into eight-year-old Gambit while doing a heist. Impressed by his skills, he offers to take the mutant orphan under his wings. Raised alongside other strays he calls 'cousins', the teenage Gambit becomes the superstar of the Thief Guild. He encounters Bella Donna Boudreaux while on the run from the police. Sparks immediately fly since Bella is also a fellow mutant. Their love is directly prohibited by both families since the Boudreaux are sworn enemies of the Lebeau clan. Deciding to unite the two sides, Remy offers to have the two clans team up on a HUGE heist to profit both families. Of course, the whole plan goes awry, and in the chaos, Maryanne Boudreaux shoots and kill Luke Lebeau. 

"We jump to 10 years later; Gambit is hired to do a job in Paris to steal something from the Louvre Museum. It was apparently a test job to see if he still has it. His mysterious employer is revealed to be Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Mr. Sinister. He offers Gambit 40 million to recover a mysterious trunk that was stolen by the Boudreaux clan. It will be auctioned off during the yearly Thieves Ball where all the criminal organizations in the world meet up. It uses New Orleans’ Mardi Gras celebrations as a cover. Gambit decides to enlist a crew of mutants to pull off this seemingly impossible heist…"

One of the big (alleged) issues in getting GAMBIT in front of the cameras was its production budget was too high for the character; well over $100 million. The last we've heard about GAMBIT is from earlier this year when Fox producer Simon Kinberg said he hoped to get GAMBIT into production in early 2018. It seems unlikely GAMBIT is getting on track anytime soon until a director, and possibly a new writer, are hired on first.

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