Gambit's Serious Now + Other Signs the World's Ending

It's Thursday and I just realized I've been writing "2024" on everything for the past nine months. Nine. Months. Nobody corrected me. This means either everyone's too polite or they've collectively decided I'm a lost cause. Both options feel correct. Found a check I wrote in January. It says 2024. The bank cashed it anyway. Even institutional systems have given up on me. This is either rock bottom or a superpower. Probably rock bottom.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Channing Tatum told Variety his Gambit in Avengers: Doomsday will be "more serious" than Deadpool and Wolverine.

Remember Deadpool Gambit? The one who spoke gibberish Cajun and made everyone laugh? Yeah that's over. The Russos want drama now. Tatum says when Gambit "drops the Mardi Gras mask, things do matter."

For Gambit. The playing card man.

He injured his leg fighting Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom in London during a "big fight." So we're getting serious dramatic Gambit with a limp. This is the character development nobody asked for but here we are. From comic relief in Deadpool to limping dramatically in Doomsday. What a journey.

Doug Liman told Deadline about the Tom Cruise space movie that still doesn't have a schedule because both of them are "tied up" which is code for "this is never happening but we like talking about it."

Liman wants to make something that'll be good "in a hundred years when there's hundreds of movies shot in space." Guy, we can't even get movies right on Earth. Let's walk before we spacewalk.

He keeps asking what they could do in space that's better than Earth. I don't know, Doug. Float? Die instantly if something goes wrong? Make insurance companies cry?

Universal pulled Jordan Peele's fourth movie from 2026.

He went back to square one. Then tossed that idea. Now he's "brainstorming" which is what I tell people when I'm scrolling Twitter at work. Originally targeting December 2024, then October 2026, now nothing. One insider said "Peele himself doesn't yet know what this next movie will be."

This is the guy who made Get Out and Us. Now he's having the creative equivalent of standing in front of an open fridge at 2am.

We've all been there. Except our indecision doesn't cost Universal millions.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die opens January 30, 2026. Sam Rockwell plays a man from the future who recruits "disgruntled diner patrons" for a "one-night-six-block quest" to stop rogue AI.

That's the plot. Future man needs random people from a diner to walk six blocks in LA and save humanity. Gore Verbinski directed this. The Pirates of the Caribbean guy made a movie about walking six blocks with diner customers.

Cast includes Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña, and Juno Temple. Shot in South Africa for some reason. Not LA. Where the movie takes place. Sure.

New set photos show Tom Rhys Harries post-surgery or post-accident. Still in Liverpool. Still looking rough. September 11, 2026 can't come fast enough for DC who really needs a win that isn't Superman.