Daniel Craig Rumored To Be Up For The Role of Mr. Sinister in GAMBIT
Channing Tatum's Gambit movie is still in development and everyone involved seems excited about the direction that they are looking to take it. You can thank Logan and Deadpool for opening certain doors to make sure this Gambit movie is going to be done right. I honestly think the film could end up being great, especially if they take in the direction that was previously rumored.
According to that rumor, Mr. Sinister is involved with the story they are going to tell and according to a report from Splash Report, the studio is looking at casting Daniel Craig in the role of the villain and if that's true, Craig would be awesome! He is a perfect fit!
If this is true it would reunite Craig and Tatum who worked together in Steven Soderberg's Lucky Logan, which was a fantastic film that you have to see if you haven't already. It would make sense if Tatum wanted to bring Craig on board the project.
For those of you not familiar with Mr. Sinsiter, he is a British scientist from the Victorian era who was genetically modified with superhuman attributes, as well as super intelligence and telepathic abilities. We know that the movie is going to be a heist film and it's rumored that Mr. Sinister will be the one to hire Gambit for a job. These are the details that were previously revealed:
Remy Lebeau (Channing Tatum) is on trial in New-Orleans. 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…
This is all just a rumor for now, but it would be fantastic to see Daniel Craig end up in the role of Mr. Sinister in Gambit. What do you think?