Channing Tatum was planning on taking part in Gambit for years. News of his involvement with the favored X-Men character started in 2014, and ultimately it appeared all however sure the 21 Jump Street star would convey the Cajun to the large display screen—till Disney purchased Fox and the film was cancelled. In a brand new interview, Tatum and producing associate Reid Carolin opened up about the entire situation.

“We were right on the one-yard line,” Carolin told Variety about Gambit. “We had cast the film. We’d opened up a production office. We were on our way to shoot in New Orleans.” But the highway to that second wasn’t precisely easy. Tatum and Carolin wrote a script they beloved a lot, they wished to direct it. But in keeping with the pair, Fox didn’t need them to direct it, which is the place names like Rupert Wyatt, Doug Liman, and Gore Verbinski got here in. Looking again at it now, Tatum makes it look like Fox didn’t fairly get what made the character so particular.

“They would call him ‘flamboyant’ in his description,” Tatum mentioned. “I wouldn’t—he was just the coolest person. He could pull anything off. Most superheroes, their outfits are utilitarian. Batman’s got his belt. Gambit’s like, ‘No, this shit’s just fly, bro! This shit walked down the Paris runway last year.’ He’s just wearing the stuff that’s so dope because he loves fashion.”

Coming off Fox’s success with Deadpool, Gambit was deliberate as a extra mature, R-rated tackle the character and his world. “We wanted to make a romantic comedy superhero movie,” Carolin mentioned. “The thesis was the only thing harder than saving the world is making a relationship work.”

But as soon as Disney purchased Fox the connection that didn’t work was Marvel and the X-Men. The movie obtained shelved and the loss hit Tatum arduous. “Once Gambit went away, I was so traumatized,” Tatum mentioned. “I shut off my Marvel machine. I haven’t been able to see any of the movies. I loved that character. It was just too sad. It was like losing a friend because I was so ready to play him.”

Tatum says he’d nonetheless be open to taking part in the character and would like to make the film he and Carolin wrote, although he now understands they shouldn’t direct it. Now they, like us, will simply sit and wait till we discover out what Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios have deliberate for the X-Men.

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