By Last year saw Channing Tatum finally fulfilling his dream of playing the X-Men character Gambit on screen with a role in Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool & Wolverine”.
Tatum and producing partner Reid Carolin spent four years developing a “Gambit” film at 20th Century Fox, but never could get it off the ground despite various attempts. Disney then acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, which effectively killed any chance of the standalone “Gambit” movie.
Back in 2017, right in the middle of all that, actress Lizzy Caplan was up for the lead female role in the feature. This week she was speaking with Business Insider when the topic of the film came up. She offered her take on what happened with the movie and what it hoped to be:
“We got down the road, we were gonna shoot it. I think there was a start date. I had meetings with Channing [Tatum], 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. They wanted to do, like, a 1930s kind of screwball romantic comedy set in that world, which would have been really fun.”
The film saw multiple directors come and go, including Rupert Wyatt, Doug Liman and Gore Verbinski. It also underwent various tonal shifts along the way – starting out more like a heist film and ending up more a romantic comedy.
Before Tatum’s role in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” the only live-action Gambit to date was Taylor Kitsch’s appearance in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. Caplan meanwhile says she is “pretty OK not doing” superhero movies these days.
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