First Look: Gambit in ‘Wolverine’
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Empire Magazine has the first official look at Taylor Kitsch as the card-throwing Cajun mutant, Gambit in director Gavin Hood’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Attendees at Comic Con were lucky to see an early preview of the film which featured Gambit in action.
Gambit first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #266 in August 1990. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artists Jim Lee and Mike Collins, Gambit is skilled in card throwing, hand-to-hand combat, the use of a bo, and possesses the ability to manipulate kinetic energy. A professional thief and self described ladies man, the character has had a longtime on and off again romantic fling with Rogue.
Wolverine will be the character’s first appearance in a movie. The fan favorite has appeared in previous television cartoons and video game releases. The character was supposed to make a small appearance during the prison convoy scene of X-Men: The Last Stand, but Marvel decided the role was too small for the character. James Franco supposedly auditioned for the part.
The first trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still.
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Sorry i had to due the photo description. As far as looks go I think its a decent representation, but we’ll have to see about his voice. I hope this movie doesn’t suck as its got two of my favorite marvel character making their debuts. (Gambit and Deadpool)
Taylor is a good actor. I hope they give him a chance to make the character good. He could definitely be something they build on for future movies…
I can’t wait to see him as Gambit. He is excellent in Friday Night Lights.
I wish they had a pic of him wearing the brown coat.
Think it’ll be the voice for me. That’ll make or break his performance. I want the accent but I don’t want a cheesy bad over-the-top one.
God, I had such a crush on Gambit when I was a kid…
I never really crushed on any X-Men. Well, Kitty Pryde, but that kinda goes without saying…
:) I wanted to BE Kitty Pryde when I was little. LOL, my best friend in 5th grade had a thing for Colossus.
Do you guys want me to just hook you up, and get all this sexual tension out of here? Geeez. :P
I had the hugest thing for Psylocke when I was a kid.. man..
I love she was in the Last Stand, but no one knew it was her until like, the credits.
Also, am I alone in thinking that X Men: Evoloution was a superior cartoon than the 90’s X Men cartoon on Fox Kids?
It probably was. But I loved the original cartoon on Fox, so I’m extremely biased toward it. When I tried to re-watch it, the laziness of it’s animation bugged me too much to continue. However, as a kid, it was pure gold. Along with the Spider-man cartoon.
Yeah, some cartoons jut don’t age well
Then some cartoons like Batman the Animated Series age very well. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well it holds up (been watching it a lot since I got the complete box set). I also remember liking the X-Men and Spiderman cartoons, but I haven’t seen them in years.
Batman reminds me a lot of Gargoyles. A cartoon series that was really mature, and beyond it’s time compared to the other “cartoons” of the time. Shows that even adults could enjoy. Great animation, great voice acting…everything was just top notch. Ah, where has the world of good television animation went?
Avatar: The Last Airbender, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Star Wars: Clone Wars, (not the CG one) Spectacular Spiderman, Class of 3000, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and pretty much anything on Adult Swim. They’re out there. You just have to look for it
But for every one of those shows you have a Spongebob Squarepants, a Drawn Together, a South Park(no offense, but you have to admit it is immature)
South Park is more mature than Family Guy, screw it, South Park can be very mature, it’s probably m favourite show on TV, it rules.
South Park’s humor is extremely immature imo. I can’t stand watching it. Just terrible.
I won’t admit South Park is immature. Deep down it has great social commentary, even if there are some immature jokes (they are 4th graders after all). It’s a satire with 4th graders, so some jokes are going to be immature but it’s for the greater good.
And what’s wrong with a few dick and fart jokes?
South Park IS the best cartoon on TV, maybe ever (well maybe The Simpsons in its hayday).
Umm, I mean, that’s just my opinion. :)
I need to check out Batman: The Animated Series. I’ve a few episodes but not the whole thing. I LOVED JLA: Unlimited.
Of course Avatar is excellent.
More than just the 4th graders are immature, so I don’t really buy that reasoning. I like the occasional episode of South Park. But they are far and few between. It really grates on me for the year after an episode. :P
And for the record, Family Guy is vastly superior to South Park. The humor is in a whole other realm. But again, lots of opinions to be found here. :P
I’m the opposite. I think its really cool how South Park and deliver genuinly clever satire but still juggle the profane and absurd humor that made it so infamous. Take “Imaginationland:” on the surface, its just really funny blast of wacky sight gags and “I did not just see that” laughs. But if you go a little deeper, it also says a lot about how the culture of fear that has defined our times can sometimes make us act really dumb and irresponible. (Nuking our imaginations) Family Guy is just a series of half-baked pop culture knock knock jokes (”This reminds me…something something….Knight Rider…something something…Maththew Perry”). Not to say its bad, its just…worthless.
I love Family Guy btw.
It just doesn’t quite have the social significance of South Park.
But it’s hilarious.
Yeha, I don’t mind a bit of Family Guy now and again, but if I watch too much of it, after a while the formula kinda gets to me
Worthless isn’t really a term that you can use to describe humor in an attempt to devalue it, or prove immaturity. In essence, all humor is worthless. Social commentaries in humor may mean something special to you, but ultimately, it’s worth is still quite low. I understand the point you are trying to make, I’m just not sure that’s the best counter-argument.
South Park can really be on top of things at times. But I think that the social significance of it is being over exaggerated quite a bit. I mean, we are talking about a show that gets a good amount of distance off the humor of a talking piece of feces. Trey Parker and Matt Stone can be funny. But I think that the initial debate topic was that the show, like much of their work, is immature. I’m not sure that it can be debated that it’s not with any sort of legitimacy.
The argument was made that the main characters are 4th graders, and as a result, some immaturity is to be expected. But it goes beyond that quite a bit. Big Gay Al, Mr. Hanky, The rednecks, etc. They are all quite immature, ultimately. Obviously, if we are going to keep comparing the show to Family Guy, then you can make the argument that a lot of the characters there are immature as well. However, beyond Peter, I don’t think it ever reaches a South Park Level of immaturity.
Honestly though, the thing that bugs me the most about South Park (Other than toilet humor and such, which I don’t groove on) is the animation style. I’ve never been a big fan of Claymation in most cases (Nightmare Before Christmas being a rare exception), so cardboard stop-motion animation is really only a hop, skip, and a jump away from that for me. It’s unfortunate to have such a bias. But my rule of thumb is this. If the show looks like it could be easily recreated on Youtube, it’s probably not my thing.
But I guess the point I’m really trying to make here is this: I have no doubt that Taylor Kitsch is going to make a great Gambit. :P
lol to the last statement
I love Family Guy and haven’t been able to get through an episode of South Park since I was a high school freshman. The animation annoys me, the voices annoy me, the shock value jokes annoy me, even the constant social commentary annoys me… there really isn’t a redeeming quality for me.
But so long as he pulls off the accent, I think Taylor Kitsch look great as Gambit!
Saberj, when’s the last time you watched South Park? Mr. Hanky and Big Gay Al haven’t been used since like…gosh I can’t even remember the last time I saw them… I think you guys are referring to early SouthPark, which I agree can be more gross than funny, but the newer episodes are really funny, not only becuase of the social commentary- whihc would get old if that’s all they did- but the fantastic lampooning of movies and pop culture. The episode where Kenny’s PSP helps command the forces of Heaven against the armies of Hell; the World of Warcraft episode, and most recently Twilight ep. It’s just a very clever show that’s grown a lot in its 12 years on the air.
I agree with Scott, I need to actually hear the guy before passing judgment
Taylor pulls off a pretty good Texan accent in Friday Night Lights. I’m not sure if that’s his natural accent or not. However, a Texan accent is fundamentally not far off from a Cajun accent. I don’t think that the accent will ever work as well as it does in comics, because written text allows you to pull off something that’s quite difficult in spoken word. I think that we can’t possibly hope for much better than we’ve gotten in animated form. Even then, that may be asking for a bit too much. A cartoon can be over the top and pull it off. It can also require the actor to say some things that may sound ok, but doesn’t look natural. But when it’s on camera, it’s a bit different. We’ll see. But I’m not going to set unrealistic expectations. I never had a problem with movie Rogue’s accent compared to the Comic/Cartoon version, personally.
Well, I still contend that Simpsons in its hey day was a billion times better than South Park and Family Guy combined.
I, personally, have never really understood the appeal of Family Guy. It just seemed to me to be a bunch of cutaway gags, like Simpsons, but without any of the heart or true family aspect that The Simpsons had.
South Park has always been hit or miss for me. Sometimes they’ll deliver a really great social satire (Passion of the Jew, or their scientology episode) but at the same time these are the guys who gave us Mr. Poo. I like South Park when it’s being biting, but I pass on the episodes that are more about the immaturity, personally.
I would say that humor used as social commentary (satire( is quite the opposite of worthless, but I don’t really understand what you mean by “worthless” anyway. If it entertains, means something to people (and many people in the case of SP) then how can it be worthless?
I should stop there before getting annoyed. :)
Yeah, i think Taylor was a great choice for Gambit; I can’t wait to see what the accent is like. Hollywood gets Southern accents wrong so often.
I must admit, that a majority of the appeal of Family Guy is in it’s dry sense of humor. That’s the style that I love. I’m more of a Jeff Goldblum guy than a Jim Carrey/Robin Williams guy. Some of the funniest bits to me are when they take something that is hillarious, drag it out to the point where it’s no longer funny, and then keep it going so long that it’s funny again. Ala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpoki4wBwtA
Put I admit, that style of humor is not for everyone. Still, some of the best parody humor in existence, IMO. Blue Harvest was golden. Much better than the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode.
@Mr. Pointy: That’s kind of my point. If you are basing humor on entertainment value, then none of it is worthless. But if you are basing it on pretty much anything else, then they are all about the same level. I don’t think “worth” is a good measurement tool for humor.
@Saberj
I see what you’re saying.
I can’t wait until Empire Strikes Back (not sure what they’re calling it) Family Guy.
Blue Harvest was awesome.
You see Blue Harvest didn’t work for me, the jokes were basic, the couch thing was funny but that was about it. I prefered the Robot Chicke star wars episode. South Park has been my favourite show since it came on, I love the simplicity of it’s animation, my problem with Family Guy is that it has no agenda, it makes pointless jokes, many that just don’t make sense. South Park always has a point, if you haven’t seen it, check out the Cartoon Wars episode of South Park and tell me they aren’t on to something
Family Guy’s agenda is to entertain. That’s it. And personally, I respect that it’s not trying to be anything more than it is. I saw the cartoon wars episode of South Park and I wasn’t impressed. I hate the show, and there’s really nothing anyone could tell me to convince me otherwise. Sorry.
What have I done?
Trouble Maker.
I will admit the Blue Harvest was pretty funny, probablly the funniest I’ve ever found Family Guy to be. But I also dug the Robot Chicken special. To me, both shows have a similaur sense of humor. Which makes sensem, when you conisder both shows involve Seth McFarlene and Seth Green
wow… we went really off topic
A little late, but I think this looks really good…
I’ve heard all over the web a lot of people that have a problem with this image. I think that it actually looks really good, and think that it is pretty accurate, for Ultimate Gambit that is.
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/8/8a/Ultimate_X-Men_Annual_1.jpg/300px-Ultimate_X-Men_Annual_1.jpg
I’ve always kind of looked at the movies as kind of ultimate-esque anyway. I mean just look at Nick Fury.
1. I love this picture. They’ve got the look down.
2. Southpark is hilarious, 8/10 (would have been 10/10 if they would cut down on the ass jokes).
Family guy is ok, but I completely agree with the parody episode ‘cartoon wars’ – the jokes are too interchangeable, they can move to another episode and we wouldn’t even notice. The plot is just an excuse.
3. @TotallyNotNick: Are you kidding me?!? X Men: Evoloution was better than the 90’s X Men cartoon?
I rewatched the whole 90s series a few months ago, and it held up extremely well for a 15 year old cartoon. Evoloution on the other hand – I watched the first season and didn’t care enough about the characters to continue. The whole highschool thing was just bad IMO.
Like to watch Stargate Atlantis episodes and also Lost. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.