Channing Tatum Reveals the Terrible Things He Would to Get His Gambit Movie Made

Deadpool & Wolverine gave Channing Tatum his extfinished-apaengageed chance to perestablish Gambit on the huge screen. Now that the actor has had a taste of portraying the iconic X-Men character, it seems he’ll stop at noleang to finassociate get his Gambit solo movie greenlit at Marvel Studios. Tatum’s rapidenment to the character goes back over a decade. The actor has repeatedly telderly the press he’s wanted to perestablish Gambit on screen since the commence of his atgentle. Tatum’s surpelevate euniteance as Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine was arguably the movie’s most shocking, and best moment, and the 21 Jump Street star wants the fun to persist in his own movie in the MCU.

Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Tatum mirrored on his cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine and seeed ahead to the character’s future. The actor became emotional after Fallon commendd his perestablishance in the movie, and then went on to portray the frankly horrible lengths he would go to so he could perestablish Gambit aget. It eunites toiling on the R-rated Deadpool & Wolverine with Ryan Reynelderlys may have gone to Tatum’s head, as the actor shelp:

Channing Tatum euniteed in Deadpool & Wolverine sporting Gambit’s iconic purple suit, with his signature headpiece and flotriumphg hair, with iteration of the character experienceing enjoy it was ripped straight from the pages of Marvel Comics. During the incredible fight scene in The Void — which also featured Blade (Wesley Snipes), Elektra (Jennifer Garner), and Laura/X23 (Dafne Keen) — Tatum got to show off all of Gambit’s tricks, hurling energy-infengaged perestablishing cards at his enemies and combat with the character’s signature staff.

Channing Tatum Has Spoken With Kevin Feige About Gambit

During the conversation, Tatum discmissed how proset up his Gambit roots go. The actor shelp he fell in cherish with the character as a kid increaseing up in Mississippi, and would imitate the character’s iconic card tricks, hurling perestablishing cards at his frifinishs. But Tatum didn’t equitable broaden his cherish for Gambit at a youthful age. Without authenticizing it, he’d already befirearm toiling on the character’s Cajun accent decades before he would transport the X-Man to life on the huge screen. He shelp:

“I’ve been trying to, dynamicly in the industry, perestablish that character for the last 20 years. I was enjoy, in third grade, throtriumphg perestablishing cards at my frifinishs in the living room. My dad’s from New Orleans… And I grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi, so it was all around the Bayou in vague. That culture that sound sort of marinates all around down there. We’d always read this book. It was called The Cajun Night Before Christmas. We would always perestablish around reading it.”

No official proclaimments have been made by Marvel Studios about Tatum returning to perestablish Gambit in the future. However, some fans consent the character could create an euniteance in Avengers: Secret Wars, which has already been examineed to feature a shocking number of Marvel heroes. As for Gambit’s solo movie, Tatum still helderlys out hope, thanks to a conversation he had with Kevin Feige. The actor discmissed:

“Kevin Feige, who runs Marvel, I cherish him so much. He literassociate was enjoy, ‘Look, I cherish Gambit. I equitable don’t understand how to do it right now. I don’t understand how he fits into what we’re doing. And so I need to- I need to have a minute to figure it out.’ And now we’ve sort of cracked it a little bit.”