Next year is going to bring a lot of big changes to the X-Men franchise. For the most part this strikes me as
being for the best; the X-Men
franchise has been more or less running in place since X2 with a major emphasis on the less. Despite this series lasting for well over a decade the
visual emphasis is still on black leather plastic, Wolverine is still king of
the party, and the X-Men’s whole existence is still solely defined by fighting
to protect a populous that hates them.
It bugs me because so much of that is just the drabbest iteration of
these characters. Hence why I’m
really welcoming the changes that will come with X-Men: Apocalypse. The
costumes are imaginative and vibrant, the conflict vast and not just rehashing
previous tensions, and it marks the beginning of the end for Wolverine’s role
in the franchise. However, with
the series most recognizable actor and character finally bowing out of the
spotlight Fox needs a new face for the franchise going forward. That’s where Channing Tatum’s Gambit comes in.
