Lizzy Caplan Talks Gambit Movie Being Scrapped, Says She Had Stress About Doing It

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Lizzy Caplan is opening up about the canceled Gambit movie. The 42-year-old actress was supposed to star as the female lead alongside Channing Tatum in the titular role for the Marvel project.

However, the movie never got made. Years later, Channing ended up playing the character in Deadpool & Wolverine, alongside several other cameo appearances. Keep reading to find out more… Lizzy told Business Insider that the movie was going to be a “30s kind of screwball romantic comedy set in that world, which would have been really fun.” “It was a really cool idea,” she added. “It’s kind of odd that it got scrapped.

Those movies don’t seem to ever get scrapped, but it did.” “We got down the road, we were gonna shoot it,” Lizzy shared. “I think there was a start date.

I had had meetings with Channing, and there were a couple different… we had a director, then we didn’t, but I had multiple meetings with Channing and the other producers.” “Let’s just say that was, like, so many years ago,” she said. “The ‘Gambit’ thing, that’s when those movies were, I guess, probably the best they were.