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In a new interview with Variety, Tatum was asked if he thought the Gambit movie could ever rise from the ashes. “Look…if we’d made our Fox version, that script would’ve never gotten made — ever. It was an R-rated romantic comedy. And when I say R-rated, I mean we went for it,” Tatum said. “We made Gambit the kind of character who could only exist in a movie with Deadpool. We had mutants having sex! It was wild — full-on. That’s something Marvel and Disney would never do.”
“You don’t always know what Disney will be, but you definitely know what it’s not going to be. It’s not gonna be horror. It’s not gonna be sex. But I think Marvel needs that kind of tonal diversity; something to balance the other side. Gambit’s a great opportunity for that. There’s so much you can do with him, and he’s slowly being built into the Marvel psyche. It’s fascinating, and I think one day they’ll figure it out,” Tatum said.
Channing Tatum’s Fox Gambit is Too Extreme for the MCU
With Tatum’s Gambit being designed as part of Deadpool’s world, it was always going to be challenging to bring the character over to the MCU without some changes. Gambit certainly had his share of envelope-pushing moments in Deadpool & Wolverine, but it was all relatively in the same ballpark as Deadpool.
