Channing Tatum's Unproduced GAMBIT Movie Would Have Been a "Mutant GOODFELLAS in New Orleans"

Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie ended up being one of the casualties after Disney bought Fox. Disney and Marvel Studios ended up killing the project, but it actually sounds like it would have been interesting.

Some new details for the film have emerged thanks to screenwriter Reid Carolin. During a recent interview with The Playlist, Carolin said the script for the film was one of his favorites and explained that it would have been a "mutant Goodfellas" and that the New Orleans setting would have been a "city of mutants that didn't care about saving the world." He revealed:

"We made this world in New Orleans that was a city of mutants that didn't care about saving the world. They went there so they could use their powers to party and hook up, and their hands could fry the grease at McDonald's and whatever else and the hardest thing for them to do was to fall in love because they could read each other's minds, or when they got into a fight, they could turn a table into a grenade and send their partner to the hospital or whatever. So, it was all this kind of low-level mutant fights and disagreements, and we sit in this world of the Mafia—almost kind of like a mutant Goodfellas in New Orleans."

Carolin went on to say that the film was just months away from production when Disney and Marvel shut it down. "We were right on the one-yard line. We had cast the film. We'd opened up a production office. We were on our way to shoot in New Orleans."

It kinda sucks that this movie never got made because it sounds like it would have been awesome and very different from any of the other Marvel movies that were being made. This was a unique take! Carolin is hopeful that the project could still happen one day and says:

"Those guys at Marvel have a really good thing going and I'm sure they have a plan that I don't know about for the X-Men universe and I'm not going to tell them how to do their jobs, they're nailing it. But I hold out hope that maybe someday it'll come back—Channing is perfect for the role. And as long as they keep making Deadpool a character, he'll need a world to play in… if they want some more characters like that, I think [they should] come our way."

When Marvel does start to play with the mutant characters in the MCU, I doubt they’ll go back to this Gambit project. But it will be interesting to see what they actually end up doing with these characters.

What do you think about these new details regarding Gambit? Would you have liked to see this movie get made?