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by David Moye for Huffington Post
Looks like actor Channing Tatum doesn’t have such a super reaction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He says he can’t watch any of the films.
The reasons are personal, a direct result of Disney shelving his proposed “X-Men” spinoff “Gambit.”
Tatum and longtime producer partner Reid Carolin spent four years developing a raunchy Marvel movie a la Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool” films.
“We wanted to make a romantic comedy superhero movie,” Carolin told Variety. “The thesis was the only thing harder than saving the world is making a relationship work.”
But there was a divide between what Tatum and Carolin wanted and the studio’s wishes.
“The studio really didn’t want us to direct it,” Tatum said. “They wanted anybody but us, essentially, because we had never directed anything.”
Still, the film was cast and a release date was set for October 2016.
However, Disney’s merger with Fox made “Gambit” a corporate casualty, according to Carolin.
“Disney had just gotten the ‘X-Men’ from Fox,” Carolin said. “I think they needed to redesign the ‘X-Men’ from the ground up.”
Tatum still hasn’t recovered from the rejection.
“Once ‘Gambit’ went away, I was so traumatized,” Tatum said. “I shut off my Marvel machine. I haven’t been able to see any of the movies. I loved that character. It was just too sad. It was like losing a friend because I was so ready to play him.”
But Tatum is open to playing the character should Disney reconsider the project.
“Uh, yeah, I would love to play Gambit,” he said. “I don’t think we should direct it. I think that was hubris on our part.”
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city’s lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.
“You’re definitely not the girl I thought I’d be in the tub with,” Channing Tatum’s character jokes to the dog Lulu in the trailer
by Benjamin VanHoose for People
Channing Tatum is bonding with man’s best friend.
In the new trailer for Dog, the actor stars as Army Ranger Briggs in a buddy comedy set on a fun-filled road trip with an unlikely companion: a Belgian Malinois dog named Lulu.
The two travel in a 1984 Ford Bronco down the Pacific Coast trying to make it in time to a fellow soldier’s funeral. Along the way, they “learn to let down their guards in order to have a fighting chance of finding happiness,” according to an official press release.
“You’re definitely not the girl I thought I’d be in the tub with,” Tatum’s Briggs says at the end of the trailer, taking a bath with Lulu. “But I’ll take what I can get at this point, I guess.”
Tatum, 41, co-directed the film with Reid Carolin. Dog also stars Jane Adams, Kevin Nash, Q’orianka Kilcher, Ethan Suplee, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Nicole LaLiberté, Luke Forbes and Ronnie Gene Blevins.
Tatum previously wrote on Instagram about making the film, “It’s already been a crazy ride. And we’ve only just begun. And if we survive the rest, it will be one of the most insane stories that I’ve ever been a part of. And I’ve been a part of some pretty crazy ones in this life of mine. This photo is from our first day of production on the first movie that my partner Reid and I are directing. This is our story. It’s taken us two years to get it to the starting line. The next eight weeks will be like riding a bull on sickmode in ludicrous speed. God be with us. In Dog we trust.”
Sharing the trailer on Wednesday, the star said on Instagram, “This process of making @dogthefilm has been one of the craziest journeys of my life! Also, if you would enjoy watching me get bit by a dog, this will be a very fulfilling and funny movie for you.”
Dog is in theaters Feb. 18.
The gallery has now been updated with UHD Screencaps of Channing in the new Ryan Reynolds movie ‘Free Guy’. You can currently watch ‘Free Guy’ in the cinemas here in the UK, aswell as on Disney+. Check it out, it’s a great movie.
A bank teller (Ryan Reynolds) discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it’s too late.
by Ace Showbiz for Ace Showbiz
Channing Tatum is set to release his second “Sparkella” book inspired by his daughter.
The 41-year-old actor released “The One and Only Sparkella” in May this year (21), which he penned after noticing his eight-year-old daughter Everly – whom he has with his ex-wife Jenna Dewan – was “self-conscious” about wearing one of her favourite outfits to school because she thought other kids would make fun of her.
And following the success of the book, which made Channing a New York Times bestselling author, the “Magic Mike” star is now working on a sequel titled “The One and Only Sparkella Makes a Plan”.
The follow-up book will be released in May 2022 and will once again take inspiration from Everly and her dad’s continued mission to encourage her to “be herself.”
Channing told People magazine, “The second book’s inspiration was a little stop and start. I started to go deeper into her school experience. I ultimately decided that I wanted to keep the second book in the world of Sparkella and her dad’s experience learning from each other, teaching each other, etc.”
“The first book was very much about how Sparkella and her father handle/navigate things when they’re nervous about how things are going to go, or how things are going to be.”
The star says he wanted the second book to tackle how kids and parents handle unexpected changes and managing expectations.
“I thought it would be really nice to experience something with the dad and Sparkella that was really about when Sparkella has plans, and the plan is now not going at all how she wanted it to go, and it is now failing,” he added.
“It’s about changing your perspective when things have not gone how you have wanted them to, how do you adapt, how do you change? Maybe the way you wanted things to be could be even better?”
The “One and Only Sparkella Makes a Plan” will be on sale 3 May, 2022.