Channing Tatum Says 'Gambit' Being Reconfigured

While 20th Century Fox has plenty on their superhero plate including “Deadpool 2,” “New Mutants,” “X-Men: Dark Phoenix,” and even a brewing “Dr. Doom” movie, their long in development “Gambit” remains at a standstill. The film has already been through a couple of directors — Rupert Wyatt and Doug Liman — and while it still has Channing Tatum attached to star, it has obviously never gotten the greenlight. In fact, it’s been kicking around for so long that the changing superhero landscape has forced those involved to reconfigure their plans.

Chatting with Yahoo!, Tatum reveals that with “Logan” and “Deadpool” breaking the rules of what superhero movies could be, it has forced everyone to take another look at “Gambit.”

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“We got really lucky. We had a first draft it was good, but we were coming to at a time at that creative phase of [the X-Men], where these movies went through a bit of a paradigm shift, where the X-Men movies and the superhero movies with ‘Logan’ and ‘Deadpool’ really broke down a lot of doors for us,” he said. “We were trying to do some things that we actually weren’t allowed to do, and they just smashed down the doors, so we’re giving it a bit of a rethink.”

Does that mean we’re getting an R-rated “Gambit”? Tatum says possibly, but he’s also open to keeping things PG-13, if only so younger audiences can also experience the picture and discover the character as he did. While there’s no formal announcements, this news does at least suggest “Gambit” is still an ongoing concern, even if they’re still trying to figure it out.