While you'll have a hard time convincing any of us at WhatCulture towers that Channing Tatum's Gambit film will ever go ahead, it's easy to see the appeal behind the character. He, like Wolverine, Cyclops, Jubilee and Storm, made a name for himself during the X-Men's golden age, appearing in both the nineties animated series and in the comic drawn by Jim Lee.
His appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine was, then, a pretty big deal. Taylor Kitsch was signed on to play the part, and with the film gearing up to develop one of the most interesting backstories in the comics medium, the stage was set for the first comic book movie prequel to be a worthwhile addition to Fox's flagging X-Men franchise.
The film itself was particularly abject, but Kitsch's Gambit was one of its few redeeming features. He certainly didn't do anything wrong, boasting a short cameo in what was ultimately an overstuffed and overthought spin-off, but Fox opted not to capitalise on his appearance at all. Plans for a Gambit origin movie were shelved until Tatum resurrected the project without Kitsch, and nothing has been heard of since.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
