Written by: David Bentley
ONE of the ace cards in Hugh Jackman's X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie is the long-awaited appearance of comic book favourite Gambit.
Taylor Kitsch plays the mutant, who has the power to charge objects with an explosive energy and often deploys a deck of playing cards and a staff.
Gambit has a huge following of comic book readers but they have had a frustrating wait to see him on the big screen.
Here I'm going to take a look at Gambit's rather unlucky card hand when it comes to the X-Men films and their multiple attempts to add him to the cast. His eventual appearance in Wolverine, along with other characters such as Deadpool and Blob, seems to have delivered the winning hand fans that have wanted for so long.
The character had been due to appear in the first X-Men movie in 2000. At the San Diego Comic Con that year, director Bryan Singer told a panel audience: "I almost had Gambit as a young boy on the basketball field, but the fear was that if he held the basketball, then released it and then it exploded, people would be like 'What's wrong with those basketballs?'. That is, people who weren't fans or didn't know the characters. But Gambit and Beast are two characters that I missed terribly."
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