Channing Tatum's 'Gambit' Movie Loses Director
Script issues have caused the film’s budget to be larger than expected, a source told THR.
By Borys Kit
Director Rupert Wyatt has fallen off Gambit, the Channing Tatum X-Men spinoff being made by Fox.
The movie project in an important one for the studio, which is hoping that it launches onto the screen as an important character as Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, one of the lynchpins of the X-Men universe.
Script issues have caused the film’s budget to be larger than expected and prompting the exit, a source told The Hollywood Reporter. A statement is expected to be forthcoming.
Josh Zetumer penned the script for the film, based on a treatment by Gambit co-creator Chris Claremont. Tatum, Reid Carolin, Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg are producing.
Wyatt also directed Rise of the Planet of the Apes for Fox.
