Channing Tatum's Unmade Gambit Movie Explained

Channing Tatum was cast as Gambit by Fox many years ago, but despite several X-Men movies and other projects having come to life, Tatum’s solo Gambit movie never came to be, and there is a reason why it was stuck in development hell. The tide has changed now, of course, after Tatum was unexpectedly recalled for Deadpool & Wolverine, but for a while, Gambit looked like one of the most exciting lost comic book movies.