Director Doug Liman has explained why he left the slow-developing X-Men spinoff Gambit. A longtime X-Men comic book favorite, Remy LaBeau/Gambit, amazingly, has only shown up in the live-action film series once, played by Taylor Kitsch in the first mutant movie spinoff, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The star of the fan-maligned 2009 film, however, was clearly Hugh Jackman, and Kitsch, while solid in a supporting role, never got a chance to reprise the character in another film (unlike Ryan Reynolds, who righted a total wrong by finally getting to redeem Deadpool last year).
There have been opportunities for other actors besides Kitsch to play the Cajun card-slinger, namely Channing Tatum. The Gambit ...
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