I wouldn't count on Gambo being the center of any film. Unless they completely force the character to suffer big changes and turn into Wolvie 2, which I highly doubt, and don't want to happen. I'd like Gambit to have a Nightcrawler type of role, just with more action scenes.
I disagree. Logan is gruff, curt and short with folks. Not exactly good company.
I think Gambit could be great in a central role. In my X4 script, he and Rogue are the two main characters (though they won't get together until X5 if it goes the way I want it to). I don't think he and Logan should be exactly alike, but I do think there are some similarities that should be explored a little. Their relationship should begin as a mutual hatred, which grows into reluctant respect as the movie unfolds. But their relationship should definitely NOT be the most important part of Gambit's character. It should be his past, his desire to change, and also the foundations of his impending relationship with Rogue.
Well, I'm looking at a much more tumultuous relationship than that of Scott and Logan. For example, I wrote in a brief physical altercation when Logan and Gambit first meet (which happens to be at a bar). Logan openly opposes Gambit staying at the mansion, but is overruled by Storm because Gambit saved her life (an extremist shoots her, but Gambit throws an explosive card into the guy's gun hand, so Storm ends up shot in the arm instead of the chest). Gambit doesn't really want to become a "student", but Rogue talks him into sitting in on a couple classes, one of which is a self-defense class taught by Logan. The class is taught in the Danger Room (virtual reality, so nobody really gets hurt), where Logan and Gambit duel. Though Logan wins, they have an excellent fight in which they earn a degree of respect from one another.
I disagree with that. Make him 24. Normally older than a student would be, but young enough that he should still take some classes before becoming a member of the X-Men. I still see Rogue as taking another year before becoming a teacher - they should go through a college-like training period before becoming full members of the staff, unless they're as old as Storm or Logan. I've calculated Rogue as having about 4 years at the school, the first of which was high school, so that means 3 years of post-high school training. Gambit, of course, has had none. He should have t least some training, even if it's not the full four years. Actually, even though Rogue had a year of training before being put on the X-Men team, I see Logan as putting Gambit on the team within a week. (He would have stayed behind like any other student; but knowing Gambit's fighting skills from their Danger Room brawl, Logan has him come along on their mission. He tells Storm that he trusts Gambit a lot more in a battle than home alone. This is part of that mistrust/respect thing I was talking about before).
I think that, done right, Gambit would be best as a young adult. I tweaked the Assassin's Guild storyline a little and made it into a teen gang thing, gave him about 4 years on the street before joining the Marauders for a few months, then another 1 1/2 years on the street before joining the X-Men. That's plenty of time to give him street cred, but also puts him at a good age to not be completely lost: he still has time to turn his life around, which he does in the X-Men. It, in many ways, makes him more sympathetic. Who would the average person warm up to faster? A full-grown, middle-aged adult who has spent his life as a thief and seducer; or a kid who's was rejected at 18 by everybody he knew, put out onto the streets, and forced to grow up much too fast?canemacar said:
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