Channing Tatum's axed Gambit movie was a "screwball romantic comedy," Lizzy Caplan recently revealed to Business Insider. Variety reported in November 2017 that Caplan had boarded Tatum's long-in-the-works passion project as the female lead,

Lizzy Caplan told Business Insider that the solo "Gambit" movie with Channing Tatum, which was scrapped in the Disney-Fox merger, had a cool concept.

Until Ryan Reynolds helped make Tatum's screen debut as Gambit a reality, it was a part that dodged the "Magic Mike" star for years.