Earlier this month word came that Gambit director Rupert Wyatt had dropped out of the Fox/Marvel film due to an unspecified scheduling conflict. Gambit, which will star Channing Tatum, was suddenly in danger of not making its October 7, 2016, release.
But now, The Hollywood Reporter says Wyatt left the film “after the studio began to question whether Wyatt was in fact committed to moving ahead on the project.” A source says of the filmmaker, “Ambivalence is not a good way to go into an expensive movie.”
THR goes on to note the line-up of films the Rise of the Planet of the Apes director has previously working on only to later leave. Apes was only his second feature and his first big-budget Hollywood production. The films that followed that but which Wyatt eventually left included: a project about the Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, which would’ve starred Michael Fassbender; the Rise sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which Wyatt reportedly jetted from after Fox “balked at his reworking of the script” (Matt Reeves would wind up directing the film); and The Equalizer, which Antoine Fuqua went on to direct after Wyatt and Sony’s visions for the film clashed. He eventually followed up Rise with The Gambler, and is said to now be developing a project called Goliath.
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But now, The Hollywood Reporter says Wyatt left the film “after the studio began to question whether Wyatt was in fact committed to moving ahead on the project.” A source says of the filmmaker, “Ambivalence is not a good way to go into an expensive movie.”
THR goes on to note the line-up of films the Rise of the Planet of the Apes director has previously working on only to later leave. Apes was only his second feature and his first big-budget Hollywood production. The films that followed that but which Wyatt eventually left included: a project about the Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, which would’ve starred Michael Fassbender; the Rise sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which Wyatt reportedly jetted from after Fox “balked at his reworking of the script” (Matt Reeves would wind up directing the film); and The Equalizer, which Antoine Fuqua went on to direct after Wyatt and Sony’s visions for the film clashed. He eventually followed up Rise with The Gambler, and is said to now be developing a project called Goliath.
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