So it’s been sitting there on the Coen brothers’ IMDB page for so long now that it’s become part of the furniture, but will Gambit ever actually get made? Apparenlty not, according to the long mooted star, Colin Firth who had this to say over on MTV Movie Blog…

“No! It’s a complete lie. It’s been on IMDB and just sitting there. The Coen brothers have written an absolutely brilliant script.”

For whatever reason, and despite the fact that the Coen Brothers are about as hot as possible right now with a recent Best Picture winner under their belt, nobody seems to be stepping up to the plate to film the movie, Firth sighed – probably because the Coens themselves don’t want to direct it.

“[‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ director] PJ Hogan came on and Ben Kingsley was attached to it. Then it was Sandra Bullock attached and then Jennifer Aniston,” Firth recounted. “They won’t direct it. It had a producer attached to it and no director.”

This was the last information I had gathered about it (from the Future Projects section);

Apparently a remake of the 1966 British crime caper which starred Michael Caine as a suitable sticky-fingered thief who teams up with Shirley MacLaine to ‘liberate’ an expensive statue from its rich owner. Needless to say, things don’t exactly go to plan and a series of double-crosses send the whole operation in to disarray. The Coen’s version was originally rumoured to star Hugh Grant, but now Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley appear to have stepped in.

Thanks to Bunnie for mailing this in.