‘New Mutants’ Pushed To 2019, ‘Deadpool 2’ Moved Up, And ‘Gambit’ Delayed
By Ben Pearson/Jan. 11, 2018 1:01 pm EST
(I’m not sure I buy that logic, since everything we’ve heard indicates that those two films are totally separate stories that likely wouldn’t cause any confusion if they were in theaters simultaneously…other than people walking up to the counter and asking for “one ticket to the new X-Men movie, please” and the theater employees not knowing which movie to send them to.)
But speaking of Deadpool 2: good news! That film was originally set to be released on June 1, 2018, but now it’ll arrive two weeks earlier, on May 18, 2018. That’s an incredibly smart move on Fox’s part, because it positions Deadpool 2 as opening one week before Disney/Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. Since Star Wars movies (even arguably unnecessary ones) are always genuine box office threats, this will at least give Deadpool 2 its time to shine before its audience is cannibalized in its second weekend of release.
As for Gambit, which just lost director Gore Verbinski this morning, the Channing Tatum-led heist thriller has been rescheduled from February 14, 2019 to June 7, 2019. That should give the studio some extra time to hire a director and give that person a fighting chance to, you know, actually have enough time to make the freakin’ movie before that new release date comes barreling toward them. Good luck, new Gambit director…whoever you may be.
