Channing Tatum discusses the Gambit movie that never successfully got off the ground in a new interview: 'It was like losing a friend because I was so ready to play him.'
In a long-spanning interview with Variety about his career and upcoming projects, Channing Tatum discussed one of his dream projects that never fully got off the ground: the long-stalled and ultimately dropped Gambit solo movie. Fox's X-Men movies were the MCU before the actual MCU became a thing. Back then, Fox had some ambitious plans for their own X-Men cinematic universe, with spinoff movies for individual characters.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY “The studio really didn’t want us to direct it,” Tatum said. “They wanted anybody but us, essentially, because we had never directed anything.” “They would call him ‘flamboyant’ in his description, 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.”The development of the film ended with the Disney merger with 20th Century Fox.