In 2014, he informed GQ, “[Gambit is] the one superhero I actually adopted. He was essentially the most actual to me: smoking, ingesting, women-loving, thief. He simply appeared cool to me. I’ve at all times cherished him. And clearly, he is Cajun.”
He was first thought of for the position for 2006’s X-Males: The Final Stand, however then Gambit was written out of the film.
Then, in 2009, Gambit was added to X-Males Origins: Wolverine, however Channing was unavailable resulting from a scheduling battle. So, the position went to Taylor Kitsch.
So, Channing started gunning for a Gambit solo film. He informed GQ, “We’re speaking about it. I am proactively form of going after it. And I really feel unhealthy as a result of I actually love Taylor Kitsch as an actor and what he did with the half, however you realize, you have received the issues that you’d actually like to do and see.”
His dream appeared nearer than ever when twentieth Century Fox tapped him and Reid Carolin, his producing companion, for a Gambit film. Nonetheless, their manufacturing spent 4 years in improvement hell. Sadly for Channing, the undertaking died when the studio merged with Disney in 2019.
In 2022, he informed Selection, “As soon as Gambit went away, I used to be so traumatized. I shut off my Marvel machine. I have never been in a position to see any of the flicks. I cherished that character. It was simply too unhappy. It was like dropping a pal as a result of I used to be so able to play him.”
