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Channing Tatum never got his Gambit movie off the ground, but one of its would-be stars has shed a bit of light on what the X-Men movie could have been like.
You’re probably pretty aware by now just how desperate Channing Tatum has been to play X-Men character Gambit. He lucked out last year with the release of Deadpool & Wolverine, where he finally got to play the character, but even now he’s still pretty desperate to make a movie happen. Seeing as the MCU hasn’t managed to get a wider reaching X-Men film out just yet (despite mutants now being a part of the canon), a Gambit film doesn’t seem all that likely, and I doubt a TV show would be on the cards these days either. But, even though Tatum’s Gambit film ultimately got scrapped, Lizzy Caplan, who would have starred in it, has shared a bit of what the film would have had going on in a recent interview with Business Insider.
“It was a really cool idea. It’s kind of odd that it got scrapped,” Caplan shared. “Those movies don’t seem to ever get scrapped, but it did.” Caplan was attached to star in a lead role way back in 2017, though who she would have been playing was never confirmed. In this recent interview, Caplan confirmed that her casting even got her as far as meeting with Tatum and co. “We got down the road, we were gonna shoot it. I think there was a start date. I had had meetings with Channing, and there were a couple different… we had a director, then we didn’t, but I had multiple meetings with Channing and the other producers.”
The actor also shared that it would have been a “’30s kind of screwball romantic comedy set in that world, which would have been really fun,” and honestly, I kind of agree. Superhero movies often feel pretty samey no matter who’s making them, they just often fall into the pitfall of treating superhero as the genre, as opposed to just being an element of the film.
Still, that version of the film will likely never materialise now, given how one-note and uniform Marvel projects are these days. Ah well, maybe we’ll see Tatum as Gambit again somewhere along the line, hammy accent and all.
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