Actually, Robert Rodriguez was offered Deadpool and ultimately passed, and Adam Berg was also up for the gig at one point, before Tim Miller signed on and finally stayed on board.
I'm not saying that Gambit will definitely happen. I never believe a project will happen until they're on set. But it's not dead or beyond saving, either.
Deadpool was in the exact same situation. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were brought on board in late 2009 (!), and their script leaked in 2010. After that it was an neverending wait, with Ryan Reynolds repeating over and over that he'd like to make it happen, and that sometimes things were moving, and sometimes they were not.
I had honestly given up hope, until THIS HAPPENED... and trust me, at that point no one would've bet a penny on the movie being made.
And I'm glad it took them so long to get a green light. Maybe another director wouldn't have knocked it out of the park like Tim Miller did... maybe had it happened years earlier they would've had to compromise their vision and make it PG-13.
It was a LOOOOOONG wait, but man, was it worth it!
And frankly, the movie exceeded all expectations. The final product turned out to be even better than the leaked script from 2010, and unproven feature film director Tim Miller (who I was frankly a bit worried about, considering that there was no proof that he could handle a feature lenght narrative and the direction of the actors) turned out to be one of the most promising talents around, and I can't wait for his take on The Terminator.
Some of the most memorable movies took a long time and hundreds of setbacks to finally get made.
Haters here will just ignore it and will continue to hate. Don`t worry






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