Channing Tatum's unmade Gambit movie had a rom-com vibe, chére
Tatum's would-be co-star, Lizzy Caplan, would've had a meet-cute with the Gambit.
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Channing Tatum was holding his cards close to his chest regarding the Gambit movie that never got made. While many assumed the film would’ve followed a Cajun card sharp who also uses those cards as magic bombs to blow up Magnetos, Gambit reportedly had more of a “screwball romantic comedy” vibe. Lizzy Caplan, who was meant to star as Remy LeBeau’s beau, says the film was a “’30s kind of screwball romantic comedy.” 20th Century Fox hired Caplan in 2017 but never announced what character she was playing—though now it seems like she was going to play Rogue, considering Anna Paquin left the series after 2014’s Days Of Future Past. Nevertheless, Caplan says it was a “really cool idea” and “kind of odd that it got is scrapped” because “those movies don’t seem to ever get scrapped, but it did.”
“We got down the road, we were gonna shoot it,” Caplan told Business Insider. “I think there was a start date. I had had meetings with Channing, 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 ’30s kind of screwball romantic comedy set in that world, which would have been really fun.”