Channing Tatum Can't Watch Marvel Films Because Of Canceled Gambit Film
After a four-year break from theaters, Channing Tatum will be returning to the big screen, starring in the upcoming films Dog and The Lost City. Tatum and Dogs co-director Reid Carolin spent four years constructing Gambit, a standaloneX-Men film centered around the card-throwing mutant that never saw the light of day, which is why Tatum finds it hard to watch Marvel films.
The 20th Century Fox project began to gain a little steam in 2016 for the iconic X-Men mutant.Gambit is a unique character who can control and manipulate pure kinetic energy, more commonly known for his skillful card-throwing ability. Gambit's only physical appearance in the live-action X-Men franchise came in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Taylor Kitsch cast for the role.
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Tatum was almost cast as Gambit for the standalone film and continued to have a burning desire to bring the character to life. He and Carolin asked to direct the developing project together, but the studio saw their inexperience to be an issue. «The studio really didn't want us to direct it,» stated Tatum during an interview with Variety. «They wanted anybody but us, essentially, because we had never directed anything.» Tatum's love, however, for the script he and Carolin had constructed was enough not to push the issue. Their wished-for version of Gambit was slated to resemble the tonal nature of Deadpool and would have been rated R based on the direction they were heading. The idea would have resulted in a romantic comedy superhero movie, with the premise centering around the relationship between the iconic mutant and his first wife, Belladonna. The project was very close to happening but never crossed the
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