Lizzy Caplan is opening up about the scrapped X-Men spinoff Gambit movie.
During a recent interview with Business Insider, the Party Down actress, who was in talks to star opposite Channing Tatum, detailed the film’s pre-production before it ultimately got axed.
“It was a really cool idea,” Caplan said. “It’s kind of odd that it got scrapped. Those movies don’t seem to ever get scrapped, but it did.”
The Zero Day star continued, “We got down the road, we were gonna shoot it. I think there was a start date. I had had meetings with Channing, and there were a couple different… we had a director, then we didn’t, but I had multiple meetings with Channing and the other producers.”
The film, which had been in development for some time with multiple director exits, was intended to see Tatum as the New Orleans-based mutant with the power to manipulate kinetic energy and whose weapons include a staff and a deck of playing cards. It was axed following Disney and Fox’s merger in 2019.
“They wanted to do, like, a ’30s kind of screwball romantic comedy set in that world, which would have been really fun,” Caplan added of the scrapped film.
Though Tatum didn’t get a chance to showcase his Gambit in a standalone film, he finally got to portray the superhero in last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
The Blink Twice star previously praised Reynolds on Instagram for allowing him to bring Gambit to life when he thought he had lost him forever.
“[Reynolds] fought for me and Gambit. I will owe him probably forever. Cause I’m not sure how I could ever do something that would be equal to what this has meant to me,” Tatum wrote following the film’s release in theaters last summer. “I love ya buddy. [director] Shawn Levy as well. Truly such a brilliant creator on every single level. All things happen for a reason. I’m so grateful to be in this movie. It’s a masterpiece in my opinion. And just pure bad ass joy. I was literally screaming in the theater. LFG!!”
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