Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine . Deadpool & Wolverine is chock full of superhero cameos , but one actor wants to reprise their character for a solo outing. In perhaps the wildest casting in a string of wild cast reveals, Channing Tatum turns up in Deadpool & Wolverine as Gambit, a role he previously got cast in but never actually got to play until now.
Despite getting to fulfil a long-held dream, the actor thinks his character deserves more screen time with a standalone movie. "I sure hope so," Tatum told Variety of a potential Gambit movie. "From your mouth to God's ears.
Write it into existence, my friend. Please." Tatum has made no secret that he wants to star in a solo movie for Marvel Studios, but he is still waiting for his little prayer to get an answer.
"Of course I've said it. I've been saying I want it for the last 10 years. It's in Bob Iger and Kevin Feige's hands.
I pray to God." Tatum has been gunning to play Gambit since X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006. He was originally cast to play the Ragin' Cajun before the character got cut from the script.
And for over a decade he's been trying to make a Gambit spinoff film, but it got killed when Disney bought Fox, leaving him "traumatized." He finally got to make his long-anticipated arrival as the deadly card dealer in Deadpool & Wolverine — a movie that achieved the largest R-rated global box office opening ever with a staggering $438.3 million and the eighth-biggest domestic w.