Channing Tatum Teases Gambit in Avengers: Doomsday That is awesome!

Excitement continues to build for Avengers: Doomsday with fans scrambling to learn anything they can about the highly anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe entry. Channing Tatum, who reprises his role as Gambit in the film, recently dropped some hints about the project and gushed over his character.

"Look, everyone in the world is going to see this movie," Tatum said in an interview with Deadline. "And it's hard to say this because, I mean, you hear these things and go, 'Of course'. But they've topped themselves every time. This will be the biggest movie of next year and maybe even the next 10 years. I'm not good enough with words to explain how big this movie will be."

Tatum also offered some insight into the script. "It's just the scope of it, what they're trying to do… what the Russos have cooked up… When I read it, I was just like, 'How are they going to do this?' It was an Everest of a mountain to climb. I am still in awe," the actor continued about his MCU project. "The stuff they are doing is so much fun."

The actor, who first played Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine, also shared his excitement about getting to reprise the role. After recalling tossing playing cards around when he was a child, Tatum said getting to suit up as his favorite X-Men character for Avengers: Doomsday was a dream come true and that he's so lucky to "cosplay his childhood hero."

However, Tatum did sustain a hamstring injury while filming an action sequence. Fortunately, he was able to complete all his scenes and assured fans that getting hurt was just a minor inconvenience in the production process. "I do so much action in this movie, but that was just a small part," he recalled. "I am very, very happy with how Gambit is going."

The actor also acknowledged the scrapped Gambit solo movie which would have reportedly been unlike anything else fans had seen before in 20th Century Fox's X-Men Universe. In February, Lizzy Caplan, who was attached to the project revealed what the story would have been about. "It's kind of odd that it got scrapped. Those movies don't seem to ever get scrapped, but it did," she said.

Tatum Reveals Why His Gambit Solo Movie Was Scrapped

"We got down the road, we were gonna shoot it," Caplan added. I think there was a start date. I 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."

Tatum recently explained why he believes the film was dumped. "Look…if we'd made our Fox version, that script would've never gotten made," he said. "It was an R-rated romantic comedy. And when I say R-rated, I mean we went for it. We made Gambit the kind of character who could only exist in a movie with Deadpool. We had mutants having sex! It was wild - full-on. That's something Marvel and Disney would never do."

Avengers: Doomsday hits cinemas worldwide on Dec. 18, 2026.