Channing Tatum Chosen As Gambit In New "X-Men" Cast
Channing Tatum is confirmed to be Gambit, the kinetic card thrower in a future X-Men film.
By Darian Goh — 15 May 2014, 11:50 AM — Updated over 10 years ago
Channing Tatum is confirmed to play Gambit in the forthcoming "X-Men" movie
Channing Tatum will play the superhero Gambit in a forthcoming spin-off movie from the X-Men series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Back in January X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner expressed an interest in casting Channing Tatum as Gambit in a proposed standalone movie, then in April the 21 Jump Street star said that he’d love to play the character. And now it seems a deal has been done, with Donner confirming the news last night.
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Channing Tatum is officially set to play Gambit in an upcoming “X-Men” spinoff movie, sources confirm.
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Channing Tatum will play the card-slinging, kinetic energy-manipulating mutant Gambit in a future X-Men standalone, a producer on the franchise said at the X-Men: Days of Future Past premiere in London.
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Series producer Lauren Shuler Donner confirmed the news in an interview
Channing Tatum will be the new Gambit according to producer Lauren Shuler Donner
Image via geeknewsnetwork.netTalking to TotalFilm in a video interview, Shuler Donner is very bullish that Tatum is involved. (The "21 Jump Street" star previously told MTV he was in serious talks for the role.)
cnn.comX-Men: Days of Future Past producer Lauren Shuler Donner spoke of Tatum's appointment to the role at the film's premiere earlier this week in London. "He's a rogue, Channing – he's a rascal, just like Remy LeBeau. And he can handle the action, we all know that," she told Total Film. "And he's got a really good heart … I think he'll be great for Gambit."
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The character Gambit will most likely have a spinoff movie just like "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
Tatum is following in the footsteps of Hugh Jackman, who has headlined two standalone “Wolverine” spinoffs, with a third currently set for release in 2017.
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Tatum will become the second X-Men character to get his own film. Hugh Jackman's Wolverine has featured in 2009's poorly received X-Men Origins: Wolverine and last year's The Wolverine.
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The role was previously played by Taylor Kitsch in the 2009 "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" movie
Gambit was previously played by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men: Wolverine. Known as an outsider and ladies' man, the mutant's powers include the ability to control kinetic energy. He is also a skilled card player and is an expert with a Japanese staff known as a Bō.
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