Director's Cut of 'X-men: Days of Future Past' to Hit Blu-Ray This Year

With about a million mutants running around across three timelines, there were bound to be some significant edits to Bryan Singer's X-men: Days of Future Past. And most of them we already know about, such as a couple of scenes involving Rogue (Anna Paquin) which were almost entirely removed, and also Halle Berry's Storm was meant to have a slightly larger part to play. Fortunately for fans who want to see everything that Singer envisioned, they will get their chance when the Blu-Ray releases later this year.

Producer Lauren Shuler Donner responded to a fan's tweet with the confirmation of an X-men: Days of Future Past director's cut that will include those removed scenes...

@SheenaTylor2 @BryanSinger @Kinberg @ShuDonner @20thcenturyfox yes ! Coming later this year.
— Lauren Shuler Donner (@ShuDonner) June 26, 2014

She doesn't provide anymore details and it's unlikely we'll learn more for awhile as the film is still performing very well in theaters. It's the top-grossing domestic release of the year at $227M and has earned $724M worldwide, so expect X-men: Days of Future Past to be a hot Blu-Ray package in the coming months. In fact, if you want to pre-order the exclusive edition complete with a replica Magneto helmet, simply go here.

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Channing Tatum Will Play Gambit in Future 'X-men' Films

Ever since X-men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner hinted she wanted Channing Tatum to play the ragin' Cajun, Gambit, in a future film there has been quite the uproar from fans against the move. That only increased when Tatum began openly campaigning for the role as the popular mutant, finally stating that he had indeed met for it. Now Donner has confirmed to Total Film that Tatum will be playing Gambit....

 Donner: " It is Channing, yes. Well you know he's a rogue, Channing. He's a rascal, just like Remy LeBeau, and he can handle the action, we all know that. He's got a really good heart, because I know him personally, I did a movie with him. So I think he'll be great, he'll be great for Gambit, and he's a southerner too, he's not from New Orleans but he is a southerner and he understands that world, and you know Gambit loves New Orleans."

While she doesn't make any comment about 2016's X-men: Apocalypse, Bryan Singer has previously stated he wants to bring Gambit aka Remy Lebeau into the film, along with a new version of Nightcrawler. So it's not far fetched to think he'll pop up for a cameo before heading off into a Gambit solo film, which Donner also seems to be alluding to.

I know other X-men fans will disagree with me on this, but I'm really anxious to see what Tatum can do. More than that I'm eager to see exactly how they present him to even look like Gambit, because right now Tatum couldn't be more different than the suave, long-haired, stealthy cajun thief.  Then again, maybe I'm wrong because he's pulling off some wildly acrobatic stunts in Jupiter Ascending.

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'X-men' Spinoffs for Mystique, Gambit, and Deadpool Being Considered

Before everything went off the rails for awhile, right around the time of X-men Origins: Wolverine, 20th Century Fox was considering a number of spinoffs from their mutant franchise. The forever-developing Deadpool film is the most notable, but there was also a Magneto film planned. With Wolverine's solo film tanking so hard, any thought of further spinoffs was shelved, but now with the franchise thriving again, old ideas are being revived.

X-men producer Lauren Shuler Donner has spoken before about her desire to do a Gambit film, possibly with Channing Tatum as the ragin' cajun, and in a conversation with EW she brings it up again along with other possible spinoffs...

Donner: “There was a regime [at the studio] that didn’t see the worth in [spin-offs], and the current people who run Fox understand, embrace it, and we’re going to do right by it. I’d like to do Gambit. I’d like to do Deadpool. We’ll see. There’s a lot of really great characters.”

Simon Kinberg, a writer and producer on the X-men movies since the original trilogy, thinks a film centered on Jennifer Lawrence's shape-shifting Mystique would be an even better idea...

Kinberg:  “I love what Jen Lawrence has done with her, and I feel like because she is in such a crowded ensemble, there’s so much more opportunity if you were to follow her solo." 

For now, Fox and Bryan Singer have enough on their plate before they can start worrying about solo films. X-men: Days of Future Past comes up this summer, followed in 2016 by X-men: Apocalypse, plus a third Wolverine film and an X-force movie directed by Jeff Wadlow. And there are bound to be more announcements as we get closer Comic-Con. 

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Is Channing Tatum "On Board' to Play Gambit in a Solo X-men Movie?

Here's something fans of Chatum Tatum might have missed about their favorite Step Up alum: he's a hardcore fan of Marvel's X-men. In particular he's a huge fan of the ragin' Cajun, Gambit, who appeared briefly in the terrible X-men Origins: Wolverine played by Taylor Kitsch. Tatum has always expressed his desire to play Gambit in a feature film, in fact you can hear him talk about it here while trying on a Cajun accent....



Anyway, it's possible he could be about to get his wish. X-men producer Lauren Shuler Donner has told Empire that she's got Tatum "on board" for a Gambit film, assuming she can get the greenlight to make it happen.

Donner: "I'm dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum. That doesn't have to be a great big movie. It's a thief in New Orleans, it's a whole different story. He's on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He's such a sweetheart."

There were brief rumblings about a Gambit film starring Kitsch around the time of the first Wolverine movie, but when it turned out to be a critical and box office dud that killed any shot at a spinoff for every character involved. Look what's happened to the Deadpool movie. With 20th Century Fox expanding the X-men brand with X-men: Apocalypse and an X-force movie, the chances of seeing Gambit back on the big screen are better than ever. 

What do you think? Would Tatum make for a cool Gambit or what?  

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