Watch Magic Mike’s Last Dance is linked to Gambit by a tragic story. The mutant, who is among the most recognizable of the X-Men group, has endured a a bumpy journey in the midst of troubled Hollywood and is always connected to the character from the Class Departed.

For 10 years Tatum tried to bring him to life for a film (either alone or as a supporting character) but in the year 2019 he gave up. Then he experienced a trauma: “I turned off my Marvel machine. I’ve not been able to watch any of the films, “he explained recently. “I loved the character, and he was too sad. It was like losing a loved one.”

Every now and then Tatum thinks about what transpired, and in Vanity Fair he has identified the main reason Gambit never came to fruition. On February 10, the film premieres the US Magic Mike’s Last Dance with Steven Soderbergh directing, and in parallel with declaring that he’s working on the remake from Ghost Tatum, he has blamed the acquisition of Fox in 2019 by Disney in 2019 that his spin-off of X-Men was completely scrapped.

“It was cancelled by Disney through Marvel after they purchased Fox,” he says. “I believe that the tone of the movie that we wanted to see was very far from what they intended or, you know that they may want to know what they do with us or without us.”

“We dabble in the occasional time, but we have to let it go physically, spiritually, and mentally,” Tatum pledges. The story began when Tatum was set to appear as Gambit in X-Men: The Last Stand but Brett Ratner’s crew changed their minds at the very last moment. He was then denied another chance to play Gambit as Gambit in X-Men Origins.

Wolverine three years later, in 2009. It was Taylor Kitsch who replaced him in a film that was critically mangled, leaving the way clear for Tatum to continue trying to make progress. Tatum’s film. Through back-to back production chaos, Lea Seydoux and Lizzy Caplan were discovered for co-star roles.

Although Gore Verbinski and Doug Liman could have directed, before parting ways with the project. Frustrated, at the end of the decade, Tatum offered 20th Century Fox to direct the film himself along together with the producer Reid Carolin, and it was then that the studio made the decision to cancel the project altogether and it was about two months after Disney bought Fox. Tatum and Reid did indeed could direct each other in the film of last year. Dog. It was a wild ride. Now both have to give up the Gambit film dead.