10 Comic Book Movies That Will Literally Never Happen
7. Gambit
When a movie has its own "Development of..." Wikipedia page, you know it's had some trouble making it to the big screen.
Fox has had designs on a solo Gambit movie for many years now, with Taylor Kitsch originally intended to spin-off his X-Men Origins: Wolverine version of the fan favourite superhero into a standalone film.
The movie was a critical bust, though, immediately killing the Gambit plans and forcing the producers to go back to the drawing board.
In 2014, X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner re-announced Gambit, with Channing Tatum signing on to play the Cajun superhero, having been an initial casting choice during production on X-Men: The Last Stand (in which Gambit was originally scheduled to appear).
In recent years, the troubled project has burned through name directors such as Doug Liman, Rupert Wyatt and Gore Verbinski, while at present Gambit is without any director to speak of.
With a recent release date push to early 2020 - just the latest of several delays - and the film's genre being changed from a heist movie to a romantic comedy, it really sounds like nobody involved with Gambit has a solid idea of what it should be or how to get it made.
A mid-budget, Channing Tatum-led superhero movie shouldn't be too difficult to get off the ground, but given how long it's languished in development, it's hard to have faith Gambit will ever come to pass.