Gambit Won’t Appear In X-Men: First Class

By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2009 3:25 am EST

Then Donner goes on to somewhat contradict what she just said, explaining that Schwartz wrote the prequel while Wolverine was in production, and that the screenwriter was asked to do a rewrite during the film’s post production. The rewrite would reflect some of the changes that were made on set and in reshoots, so that the timing “matches with First Class.” To me, this insinuates that the two films might be more connected than she is at first letting on.