Warning: SPOILERS for Deadpool & Wolverine are ahead! Back when 20th Century Fox existed as one of the major film studios and was releasing the X-Men movies , there was a good half decade where a Gambit movie was in development. The character had previously been played by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men Origins: Wolverine , but Channing Tatum would have taken over as the Ragin’ Cajun for this spinoff. While Gambit was cancelled once Disney acquired Fox in 2019, Tatum finally got his time to shine as Remy LeBeau thanks to Deadpool & Wolverine , the 34th of the Marvel movies in order .
A little over a week following the threequel being released on the 2024 movies schedule , Ryan Reynolds has explained why Tatum is the perfect Gambit, and it seems like he’s also making a case for the Gambit movie to be revived. In addition to sharing the first official photos of Tatum suited up as Gambit, Reynolds used his X (formerly known as Twitter) post to shower the Magic Mike and 21 Jump Street actor with praise, saying: Gambit is a guy Chan was born to play. His story is similar to mine in that he spent a decade trying to put the most comic-accurate version of Gambit on the big screen.
Remy LeBeau is grafted to his soul and needs to come out and deal. And Gambit found his author in Chan. He’s one of the coolest, smartest characters in Comics and still largely unexplored.
I want more — and from what I saw in theaters, you do too. Having the chance to say goodbye to some of these heroes is a.