Why ‘traumatized’ Channing Tatum can’t watch Marvel superhero movies anymore
nypost.comreally wanted to take on that never came to fruition, reportedly causing him significant trauma. Tatum was set to play the X-Men character Gambit in his own solo movie, with news of the film first hitting in 2014.
However, that production remained stuck in development hell for years. Now, the Alabama native is opening up about how the Marvel Cinematic Universe left him “so traumatized” after he was never able to play the mutant character.Tatum told Variety that he and his producing partner, Reid Carolin, had been developing “Gambit” for four years and even asked Twentieth Century Studios if the duo could direct the feature.“The studio really didn’t want us to direct it,” Tatum explained. “They wanted anybody but us, essentially, because we had never directed anything.” Tatum subsequently told Carolin that he was open to forgetting the idea of directing simply because he loved the superhero film’s script so much.The film adaption of “Gambit” was set to be rated R and mimic the comedic tone of Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool” series.
Carolin told Variety that the film was going to be a romantic comedy mixed with a superhero flick, noting how close he and Tatum were to shooting the movie. “We were right on the one-yard line.
We had cast the film. We’d opened up a production office. We were on our way to shoot in New Orleans,” he said.But, alas, after Disney merged with Fox in 2019, “Gambit” was a victim of the corporate war. “Disney had just gotten the ‘X-Men’ from Fox,” Carolin said. “I think they needed to redesign the ‘X-Men’ from the ground up.”In turn, Tatum felt immeasurable sadness when the production broke down.
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