Ryan Reynolds suggests that the funniest cameo in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ could become an entire spin-off

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An almost forgotten Marvel anti-hero might be making a name for himself here.

With his first ever fully Disney produced Deadpool film, Ryan Reynolds wanted to use the corporate fathers’ change to shed light on the piss-poor state of every company in the comic book business that couldn’t manage to turn classic, beloved superheroes and supervillains into major gajillion-dollar franchises. Armed with his biggest budget yet and with the full force of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (as well as an adamantium skeleton), Reynolds made Deadpool and Wolverine the most ambitious and comprehensive parody of the superhero movie genre to date, tying up loose ends and going heavy on the industry’s in-jokes while trashing the legacy of 20th Century Fox X-Men film series, the Blade trilogy and Fantastic fourthe entire unsuccessful filmography.

But out of all the forgotten franchises, characters and abandoned projects that Deadpool and Wolverine briefly brought back from the dead, one cameo caught the attention of MCU brass better than any other: Channing Tatum’s performance as Cajun card-thrower Gambit. Now, nearly a decade after Fox first tried to get a Gambit solo movie with Tatum off the ground, Reynolds says Disney is “obsessed with him in that role.”

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So is everyone else who watched Deadpool and WolverineI declare.

The subject of Tatum‘s performance i Deadpool and Wolverine came up under Reynolds‘ latest appearance on Weekly entertainment‘s Awardist podcast, and while Reynolds was doing it‘I don’t want to oversell Tatum’s future‘s Gambit, he said he heard some extremely positive feedback from his new partners. “Honestly, I do‘I don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in the bookkeeping sessions at Marvel, but I do know that they‘is obsessed with him in that role,” Reynolds explained of Tatum‘s Disney hype.

“The‘It’s kind of like the same situation I went through,” Reynolds said, referring to the full decade he spent trying to convince film industry movers to give Deadpool his own R-rated feature. “Once you show that it works well, then‘is really what they need. Sometimes they just need to see it in action.”

“And Channing is so unique in how he plays that character,” Reynolds added of the cameo, “but also him‘is so beautiful physically, the way he moves and the way he can take steps.”

Comic book fans will remember that Fox first tried to make a standalone Gambit movie for Tatum within their X-Men film universe back in 2014, but the project spent five years in development hell before the bigwigs finally let it die. Given his own experience with the arduous process of bringing a beloved B-list superhero to life on film, Reynolds declined to say for sure whether Deadpool and Wolverine revived hopes for a Gambit feature, but as he said, “I hope so.”

I hope so too – do you know how long I’ve been waiting for me?