Channing Tatum was planning on playing Gambit for years.
News of his involvement with the popular X-Men character began in 2014. The project was in development for four years and was described to be a raunchy stand-alone superhero movie comparable to Deadpool.
Sadly, when Disney bought Fox, the movie got canceled. In a recent interview with Variety, the 21 Jump Street star was heartbroken. So heartbroken that he boycotted Marvel movies.
“Once Gambit went away, I was so traumatized,” Tatum told Variety. “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.”
Gambit is a suave thief who can manipulate kinetic energy. He’s distinctly fashionable and according to Tatum, “the coolest person”. The film was to be directed by Reid Carolin, who worked together with Tatum on the Magic Mike movies. When Fox was bought over by Disney, there was pushback on how raunchy the movie could potentially be.
“They would call him ‘flamboyant’ in his description,” Tatum described. “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.”
Despite the movie being canceled for years now, Tatum says he’d still be open to playing the character and would love to make the movie he and Carolin wrote. Now they, like us fans, will just have to wait and see what Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios have planned for the X-Men.
Don’t judge a book by its cover, for behind all this makeup, is a geek just like you. To simply put it, superheroes, Star Wars, Harry Potter and all things gore and creepy makes this girly girl swoon.
Natalie
Trinity Sun
