He auditioned for the role but was ultimately cut from the movie, the opportunity presented itself for him to “reprise” his role in ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ in 2009 but he was unavailable and the role went to Taylor Kitsch instead.

August 20, 2024 - The actor has long sought an opportunity to play the character, but the project failed to come together before 20th Century Fox's sale to Disney in 2019. All seemed lost until the new film, which finds Tatum stepping up as part of a wildly ...

August 23, 2024 - Long before Channing Tatum finally made his debut as Gambit, Taylor Kitsch portrayed the Cajun mutant in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This version of Gambit was even less faithful to the Marvel Comics character, which contributed to Kitsch's ...

July 10, 2015 - Most likely, the decision to not bring Kitsch back in the part was motivated by Fox's desire to ignore X-Men Origins: Wolverine entirely, a non-issue now since it's been wiped from the timeline anyway.

July 26, 2024 - As such, Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch stepped into the role, and signed a deal to play the character in three solo movies—except, because Origins: Wolverine was, uh, quite poor, none of Kitsch's Gambit movies ever materialized.

August 19, 2025 - But, the studio clearly had its eye on Tatum for years, and producer Lauren Shuler Donner was reportedly the one to cast him, largely based on his public enthusiasm for the character.

July 25, 2024 - Gambit was then pitched for the ... he stepped away as director. Tatum was busy filming GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra around the time of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, meaning Taylor Kitsch took the role....

October 1, 2025 - Originally lined up for a small role in X-Men: The Last Stand, the Cajun card-slinger was never a big-screen priority, despite Channing Tatum’s name circling the role for years. That false start was followed by an even stranger twist: Gambit was finally in play for X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), but when Tatum’s schedule kept him tied to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the part went instead to Friday Night Lights alum Taylor Kitsch.

December 6, 2025 - However, Wolverine was not well received by critics, and Kitsch's performance did not make him the breakout hit that Fox executives had expected. In September 2013, Tatum expressed interest in taking over the role from Kitsch, saying, "Gambit's my favorite. I'm from New Orleans, around that area.

August 1, 2024 - Tatum didn't fit for me in the role at all!!! That is my biggest let down in the movie as Kitsch would have made it so GREAT with Snipes & Gardner so I am for sure disappointed in his character not making a cameo.

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August 18, 2024 - However, with the film now the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, the studio clearly felt they weren’t risking spoilers by making those cameos public. Actors felt comfortable sharing their participation, and among them was Channing ...

August 27, 2023 - After the disappointment of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox did its best to distance itself from the film, including Taylor Kitsch's performance as Gambit.

January 6, 2025 - Regardless, the only time Gambit was ever on screen was when Taylor Kitsch played him in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. So what’s the deal?

After the studio's original mutant trilogy came to an ignominious end in 2006 with "X-Men: The Last Stand" (a film that saw alleged sexual harasser Brett Ratner replace alleged sexual predator Bryan Singer at the helm), Fox decided to soft reboot the franchise by making a prequel film about Hugh Jackman's Man With the Adamantium Claws. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" even teed up potential spinoffs by introducing Ryan Reynolds as a pre-Deadpool Wade Wilson and Taylor Kitsch as the Ragin' Cajun himself, the smooth-talking, card-chucking thief Remy LeBeau, better known as Gambit.

July 26, 2024 - Three years after The Last Stand, the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine finally brought Gambit to the big screen. 20th Century Fox actually tried to get Tatum for the role, but he was busy filming [*checks notes*] G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. ...

August 20, 2025 - Related: Ryan Reynolds Claims Marvel Is Obsessed With Channing Tatum’s Portrayal of The Gambit In ‘Deadpool And Wolverine’ · With that pun, Kitsch confirmed that he has no hard feelings toward Marvel or Tatum.

I'm not crazy about either Gambit or Deadpool having their own solo films. Wolverine had to wait 3 whole films before he got a solo film. A couple of support characters who had about 15 minutes of air time each are now rumoured to get their own spin-offs which will cost millions of dollars to produce?? It just seems a little hopeful to me... I mean, I can't blame Kitsch or Reynolds for wanting to carry on playing the characters (and getting lots of money & adoration that comes with it ;) but after 15 minutes of screen time I'm not convinced they can carry a whole 90 minute film.

July 26, 2024 - But many other studios wanted him too, so when Fox finally sent him the offer to play Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Tatum had to pass because he had already committed to play Duke in another 2009 film, G.I.