Ryan Reynolds suggests the funniest cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine could become a full spin-off

by Junna Base November 8, 2024

An almost forgotten Marvel anti-hero could make a name for himself here.

Featuring its first-ever entirely Disney production Dead Pool Film, Ryan Reynolds I wanted to use the change in corporate fathers to call out the sorry state of all companies in the comic book film industry that failed to turn classic, beloved superheroes and supervillains into sprawling billion-dollar franchises. Armed with his biggest budget yet and the full power of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (as well as an adamantium skeleton), Reynolds pulled it off Deadpool and Wolverine the most ambitious and comprehensive parody of the superhero film genre to date, wrapping up loose ends, delving deeply into industry jokes while skewering the legacy of 20th Century Fox X Men film series, the blade trilogy and Fantastic fouris the entire failed filmography.

But of all the forgotten franchises, characters and abandoned projects Deadpool and Wolverine After briefly rising from the dead, one cameo caught the attention of MCU leadership better than any other: Channing Tatum’s performance as Cajun card thrower Gambit. Now, nearly a decade after Fox first attempted to mount a Gambit solo film starring Tatum, Reynolds says Disney is “obsessed with him in this role.”

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This also applies to everyone else who watched Deadpool and WolverineI explain.

The topic of Tatum‘s performance in Deadpool and Wolverine came up during Reynolds‘ most recent appearance on Weekly entertainment‘S Prize winner Podcast, and while Reynolds did it‘I don’t want to overstate Tatum’s future‘s Gambit, he said he has heard extremely positive feedback from his new partners. “I honestly don’t‘I don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in the accounting meetings at Marvel, but I know they do‘“I’m obsessed with him in this role again,” Reynolds said of Tatum‘s Disney hype.

“It‘“It’s kind of the same situation that I went through,” Reynolds said, referencing the entire decade he spent trying to convince the movers and shakers in the film business to give something Dead Pool his own R-rated film. “Once you show it works well, then‘This is really what they need. Sometimes they just need to see it in action.”

“And Channing is so unique in the way he plays this character,” Reynolds added of the cameo, “but also he‘He’s so physically beautiful, the way he moves and the way he can pick up steps.”

Comic book fans will remember that Fox first attempted to make a standalone Gambit film for Tatum within its X-Men film universe back in 2014, but the project spent five years in development hell before the big boys finally killed it let. Given his own experience with the arduous process of bringing a beloved B-list superhero to life on film, Reynolds declined to say for sure whether Deadpool and Wolverine revived hopes of a Gambit feature, but as he said, “I hope so.”

I hope so too – do you know how long I’ve been waiting for this?

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