Deadpool & Wolverine Director Opens Up About Almost Directing Channing Tatum"s Gambit Movie
Warning: This article includes spoilers from Deadpool & Wolverine.
Summary
- Shawn Levy almost directed Channing Tatum's Gambit movie, but the pair ended up united for Deadpool & Wolverine instead.
- Levy stated that Channing Tatum was visibly emotional on the set and grateful to be there.
- Gambit's appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine is one of the most major cameos in the MCU movie.
After being united for Deadpool & Wolverine, Shawn Levy opens up about how he was very close to directing Channing Tatum's Gambit movie prior to the Marvel Cinematic Universe team-up.
In a new interview with The New York Times, Levy went more in-depth about getting Tatum as one of the major Marvel cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine. However, it turns out the two Hollywood stars almost worked together many years ago, as Levy revealed that he was in the mix to direct Tatum's Gambit movie, sharing the following:
Channing was visibly emotional every day on set. Sometimes it was in the form of smiling euphoria and sometimes it was tearful gratitude, but I’ve never seen an actor more grateful to be on set than Channing Tatum. I was one of several dozen directors who interviewed to direct the “Gambit” movie over a decade ago, and the first time Ryan and I pitched Kevin Feige [the Marvel Studios president] the idea, we had to explain it a bit because this isn’t a capstone to legacy: This is a zig when all the other characters were zagging. It also gave an opportunity to cut against the grain of the other characters, because Gambit’s experience is diametrically different than all the other legends.
Source: The New York Times