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Ryan Reynolds says Marvel is 'obsessed' with Channing Tatum's Gambit after Deadpool & Wolverine

Ryan Reynolds says Marvel is 'obsessed' with Channing Tatum's Gambit, but doesn't know what the future holds after 'Deadpool & Wolverine.'

"I honestly don't know what goes on behind closed doors in the bookkeeping sessions at Marvel, but I do know that they're obsessed with him in that role," Reynolds says of Tatum's card-slinging Cajun mutant on Entertainment Weekly's Awardist podcast. Reynolds is referring to that test footage of his Deadpool that leaked in 2014 and proved to the studio that there was enough hype to move forward with a movie. Prior to Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the studio that originally owned the movie rights to such Marvel heroes as the X-Men, Blade, and Daredevil, Tatum was set to headline his own Gambit movie, portraying the fan-favorite member of the X team with the power to turn potential energy into kinetic energy.

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