While Tatum's triumphant unveiling as Gambit in "Deadpool & Wolverine" was celebrated, knowing what Caplan had to say makes it difficult to imagine "Gambit" would have been embrac

Channing Tatum’s axed Gambit movie was a “screwball romantic comedy,” Lizzy Caplan recently revealed to Business Insider. Variety reported in November 2017 that Caplan had boarded Tatum’s long-in-the-works passion project as the female lead,

Gambit's potential solo film with Channing Tatum got scrapped after Disney acquired Fox. Channing Tatum's humorous Gambit portrayal received positive feedback, leading to interest seeing him get the role in future projects.