Channing Tatum thanks Deadpool and Logan (Picture: Rex)

Channing Tatum has confirmed that he is still attached to the upcoming X-Men movie Gambit – and thanked Deadpool and Logan for helping them to push for a movie that will reinvent superhero movies.

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Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Channing admitted that the film is still moving forward but that ‘it’s not ready until it’s ready and the studios have to play a chess game with real estate and giving dates and scaring people off certain dates and grab as much real estate as they can’.

‘I’ve never told anybody when we’re going to make this thing [but] we’ve got really lucky in a way, it’s been a blessing in disguise because we were making a certain type of movie that was really hard to reinvent and you get a lot of push back when you try to do something different,’ he added, ‘but then Deadpool and Logan came through and lit a stack of dynamite in that door and blew it off for us so now we’re going off and really able to buck the system and do something different.’

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The Logan Lucky star has long been vocal about starring in a standalone movie about the mutant who can mentally create, control, and manipulate pure kinetic energy to his desire; at the San Diego Comic Con he appeared to drum up support and take part in one of the most epic superhero selfies of all time.


The film was originally scheduled for a late 2016 release after Deadpool and X-Men: Apocalypse but it continued to be pushed back by the studio.



Early in 2017 producer Lauren Shuler Donner confirmed that Tatum was still attached and when asked if the success of Deadpool had helped Gambit, told press that ‘only that it’s a solo spinoff, that’s the only thing’.

She added: ‘They are different animals.’

Different animals that hopefully we’ll see on screens sooner rather than later.

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