Based on the comic book character Chris Claremont and Jim Lee created in 1990, Gambit made his first appearance in live-action form in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine with Taylor Kitsch in the role.

Channing Tatum’s axed Gambit movie was a “screwball romantic comedy,” Lizzy Caplan recently revealed to Business Insider. Variety reported in November 2017 that Caplan had boarded Tatum’s long-in-the-works passion project as the female lead,

Not every canceled project has Ryan Reynolds’ support, but that certainly helped this one. Now, we know more about what the movie originally could have been. Lizzy Caplan had been in talks to co-star in Tatum’s Gambit film all the way back in 2017.