Channing Tatum’s Gambit film by no means got here to fruition as a result of Disney/twentieth Century Fox merger, however the actor’s dream of enjoying Marvel’s Ragin’ Cajun lastly got here true final 12 months. Deadpool & Wolverine featured Remy LeBeau as one of many superheroes the title protagonists teamed up with in The Void, and Tatum will reprise the character in Avengers: Doomsday late subsequent 12 months. Tatum is approaching Gambit otherwise for the upcoming Marvel film that fortunately addresses a Deadpool & Wolverine-related concern that was on my thoughts.
Throughout an interview with Selection, Channing Tatum talked about that regardless of Gambit being one among Deadpool & Wolverine’s hottest components, studio executives “actually needed to wrap their thoughts across the accent and the way individuals are going to know him” for Avengers: Doomsday. The actor’s resolution? Tone down his character’s accent. In Tatum’s phrases:
I’m not gonna go full Cajun…. [Joe and Anthony Russo] need issues to be humorous, however they don’t wish to go full ‘Deadpool.’ They wish to maintain the drama and maintain it tight. When Gambit will get critical — when he drops the Mardi Gras masks — issues do matter.
With Deadpool & Wolverine resting as comfortably within the comedy style because it does the superhero style, if no more so, it shouldn’t be shocking that Gambit’s accent was deliberately exaggerated for laughs. At one level Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson asks if the Minions have been Remy’s dialect coach. However for a film like Avengers: Doomsday, going that onerous on Gambit’s accent and his sometimes incoherent dialogue would absolutely find yourself being too distracting.
So though Doomsday could have some humorous moments, it grew to become essential to floor Gambit a bit extra… nicely, as a lot as you’ll be able to floor a mutant who throws enjoying playing cards charged with kinetic vitality. Channing Tatum was additionally requested throughout his chat with Selection about whether or not becoming a member of the MCU now made sense. Reasonably than answering that query instantly, he mentioned this:
My singular focus was Gambit. He likes ladies, he smokes, he drinks. He’s not only a save-the-world type of man — we’d like these, however we’d like distinction.
Gambit might want to grow to be a save-the-world type of man in Avengers: Doomsday, as Robert Downey Jr.’s Physician Doom is ready to wreak havoc on the multiverse in each that film and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars. Channing Tatum is one among seven X-Males-related actors who’re confirmed to seem in Doomsday, although not like the others, he by no means appeared within the unique X-Males movie sequence. We’ll additionally reunite with Patrick Stewart’s Professor X, Ian McKellen’s Magneto, Rebecca Romijn’s Mystique, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast, Alan Cumming’s Nightcrawler and James Marsden’s Cyclops.
We’ll see how Gambit does alongside these different X-Males characters, in addition to the Avengers, New Avengers, Incredible 4 and lots of others, when Avengers: Doomsday is launched on December 18, 2026. Ryan Reynolds can be anticipated to reprise Deadpool within the tentpole launch, though this has but to be formally confirmed.