Channing Tatum has officially met with 'X-Men' producers about Gambit role in standalone and 'Apocalypse' movies [VIDEO]

After Channing Tatum mentioned earlier this year that his favorite X-Men character was Gambit and that he'd love to portray the Cajun mutant in a film one day, we all got a bit excited. Since this comment, X-Men director Bryan Singer revealed Gambit would appear in his Days of Future Past sequel, Apocalypse. Now Tatum revealed he's been taking meetings about taking on the role!

I met with Lauren Shuler Donner. And I would love it," he told MTV. "Gambit is really the only X-Man I've ever loved. I mean I've loved them all, they're all great, but I guess from being down south - my dad's from Louisiana, I'm from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida - I don't know. I just related to him. He's just kind of suave... He's the most un X-Men X-Man that's ever been in X-Men. Other than maybe Wolverine, who's like the anti-hero. He's a thief. He's not even a hero. He's kind of walking the line of grey...He loves women and drinking and smoking and stuff so he's just a cool guy who happens to have a moral center."

He added: "I hope it [comes together]. You never know it's a weird industry. If the stars align, I would die to play it. I'm already working on the accent. It's crappy at the moment."

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This quote of course comes after comments from earlier in the year from Tatum and Schuler Donner in regards to the character. Though this time around the process has moved forward from just talking about it.

"I'm dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum," Shuler Donner admitted in January. "That doesn't have to be a great big movie. It's a thief in New Orleans, it's a whole different story. [Channing Tatum]'s on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He's such a sweetheart."

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