Channing Tatum so 'traumatised' about not playing Gambit that he can't watch Marvel movies

Channing Tatum says he was devastated when the 'Gambit' movie fell apart. Photo: 20th Century Fox

In a recent Variety cover story, Channing Tatum talks about the road to co-directing his first movie, Dog, with his longtime producer partner Reid Carolin.

But before he came up with the idea for the indie movie, Tatum and Carolin spent four years developing Gambit, a raunchy stand-alone movie based on the X-Men mutant.