Gambit
It’s always interesting when you get a well known producer talking about casting of a dream project since it’s not something they do often, usually because it can complicate things either behind the scenes or with the actors in question. X-Men film series producer Lauren Shuler Donner has been pining to do a Gambit movie since Taylor Kitsch took on the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and she mentioned it in relation to some other X-Men related material in an interview recently about how she does want to get a standalone film out there.
“I’m dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum,” Shuler Donner reveals. “That doesn’t have to be a great big movie. It’s a thief in New Orleans, it’s a whole different story. He’s on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He’s such a sweetheart.”
Amusingly, Channing Tatum actually talked about this a bit last year while doing press for White house Down when it came up that he’s a fan of the character.
“I would like to play Gambit. Gambit’s my favourite. I’m from New Orleans, around that area. My dad’s from New Orleans, and I like to do a Cajun accent. I could do it for real.”
“No knock on Taylor Kitsch, though, ’cause I actually like his Gambit, but I’ve always lived around Cajun people. Gambit was always like the woman-loving, cigarette-smoking, drinking guy. He was the punk rock of all the superheroes. He’s a thief. He kind of rode the line.”
Can you envision Channing Tatum as Gambit?
[Source: Empire]