Channing Tatum nonetheless actually desires a Gambit film, and he is keen to do something (significantly) to make that occur.
Spoilers forward for Deadpool & Wolverine.
For a few years now, Magic Mike and 21 Leap Road actor Channing Tatum has been desperately attempting to make a Gambit film occur. He is a fan favorite X-Males character in spite of everything, and Tatum has numerous love for the gambler too, but it surely’s by no means materialised. Till lately, type of anyway, that’s. Whereas he isn’t fairly managed a solo outing simply but, he did function fairly prominently within the MCU’s newest outing, Deadpool & Wolverine, as Gambit himself. He was there alongside another acquainted faces, like Jennifer Garner as Elektra, and Wesley Snipes as Blade, however the place they had been returning to their characters for the primary time in a few years, Tatum was taking on the function for the primary time.
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And because it seems, in a current look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Tatum shared the lengths he would go to to make a solo Gambit movie occur. “We had been about to make the film, after which Fox received purchased by Disney,” Tatum defined of the Gambit movie that just about occurred earlier than the acquisition. He then continued, sharing how MCU boss Kevin Feige is an enormous fan of Gambit, however wasn’t positive of how you can put him within the movie universe simply but. “He actually was like, ‘I like Gambit. I simply do not know how you can do it proper now. I do not know the way [Gambit] suits into what we’re doing. So I have to have a minute to determine it out.'”
There nonetheless is not any type of affirmation {that a} Gambit film would possibly occur, Feige presumably desires an X-Males movie earlier than that occurs, however Tatum did say “Now we have kind of cracked a bit of little bit of a code. Hopefully. I might kill kittens… I might do plenty of horrible issues to make” a Gambit movie occur. Do not mess with Tatum in relation to Gambit, apparently.
Deadpool & Wolverine is doing very nicely for itself, having hit $1 billion on the international field workplace over the weekend, which I am positive Feige and different executives are fairly joyful about given the MCU’s current misses.
