Channing Tatum Has Taken A Meeting To Play Gambit

Channing Tatum Has Taken A Meeting To Play Gambit

By Germain Lussier/April 15, 2014 10:45 am EST

Tatum revealed this in an interview at the MTV Movie Awards, where he received a Trailblazer Award. The Channing Tatum Gambit stuff starts at 4:23.

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And here’s the full quote after being asked if we’d ever see him as the mutant?

Along with Tatum, Shuler Donner has also made it very clear she’d love to make a Gambit movie with Tatum, but we didn’t know it had gotten this  far.

I met with Lauren Shuler Donner. And I would love it. Gambit is really the only X-Man I’ve ever loved. I mean I’ve loved them all, they’re all great, but I guess from being down south – my dad’s from Louisiana, I’m from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida – I don’t know. I just related to him. He’s just kind of suave… He’s the most un X-Men X-Man that’s ever been in X-Men. Other than maybe Wolverine, who’s like the anti-hero. He’s a thief. He’s not even a hero. He’s kind of walking the line of grey…He loves women and drinking and smoking and stuff so he’s just a cool guy who happens to have a moral center….I hope it [comes together]. You never know it’s a weird industry. If the stars align, I would die to play it. I’m already working on the accent. It’s crappy at the moment.

What do you think about Channing Tatum as Gambit?