Until Ryan Reynolds helped make Tatum's screen debut as Gambit a reality, it was a part that dodged the "Magic Mike" star for years.

Channing Tatum’s axed Gambit movie was a “screwball romantic comedy,” Lizzy Caplan recently revealed to Business Insider. Variety reported in November 2017 that Caplan had boarded Tatum’s long-in-the-works passion project as the female lead,

Years after its cancelation, it's been revealed that Channing Tatum's Gambit movie was meant to be a "screwball romantic comedy" Lizzy Caplan, originally the female lead of a Gambit movie once slated for 2018 before being quietly shelved, told Business Insider that the unmade Marvel movie was in the vein of '30s romcoms.