Lizzy Caplan Says Cancelled GAMBIT Film Was A ‘Screwball Romantic Comedy’

Even though Channing Tatum’s long in-development Gambit film never materialized, the actor was able to portray the mutant Cajun in live-action with Deadpool & Wolverine. If you followed the trajectory of the 20th Cenury Fox X-Men spin-off, it went through various directors and different takes that delayed the film indefinitely, especially soon after Disney acquired the rights.

Producer Simon Kinberg has previously said the film was designed as a romantic comedy, and now actor Lizzy Caplan chimes in with her opinion of the project. Caplan would’ve portrayed Gambit’s love interest, Bella Donna – daughter of the leader of the competing Assassins Guild.

“It was a really cool idea,” Caplan told Business Insider “It’s kind of odd that it got scrapped. Those movies don’t seem to ever get scrapped, but it did.

“We got down the road, we were gonna shoot it,” she continued. “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.

“They wanted to do, like, a ’30s kind of screwball romantic comedy set in that world, which would have been really fun.”

A unique project that never came to be.

Source: Business Insider

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