Channing Tatum spoke with ScreenRant about his role in “Avengers: Doomsday.” He is reprising his role as Gambit for the film, and he declined to say exactly which universe his character is from. He did willingly offer one detail about where Gambit’s story begins. Tatum first played the character in 2024’s “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
Channing Tatum’s Gambit Origins Left Open For “Avengers: Doomsday”
Tatum was confirmed to return as Gambit in “Avengers: Doomsday” on March 26, 2025, in the chair announcement. In addition, several actors from Fox’s original “X-Men” trilogy were also confirmed to reprise their roles as their respective characters in the movie. The actors were the late Sir Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops) and Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler). Stewart died Oct. 28, 2026, at age 86, less than two months before the film’s release.
Tatum addressed his character’s roots in an interview with ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley. The conversation marked the launch of Dunkin’s “Avengers: Doomsday” menu, which arrived at participating locations nationwide on Nov. 4. When Crowley asked which universe Gambit comes from, Tatum responded by saying, “I don’t want to give that away.”
However, he did confirm that Gambit belongs to the “X-Men” timeline shared by McKellen’s Magneto, Stewart’s Professor X, Marsden’s Cyclops and Romijn’s Mystique. He said that timeline comes with “gray around it.” He also added, “Even where he came from in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ like you’re saying, he hasn’t been anywhere, in a way, and he was born in The Void, in a way. It doesn’t go into it is what I would say. We start in such a place that we never really get to address where he’s come from.”
Fans have spent more than a year wondering whether Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds will reprise their roles as Wolverine and Deadpool, respectively. The Hollywood Reporter reported in August 2025 that Reynolds would appear, and the pair teased their involvement in a video at D23 in August 2026. However, Marvel has not officially added either actor to the cast. Whether they will appear in “Avengers: Doomsday” or not will very likely remain a mystery until it hits theaters on Dec. 18, 2026.
Speaking with Variety in August 2024 about his appearance as Gambit in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Tatum expressed his desire to continue playing the character. When asked about getting his own standalone “Gambit” film, he said, “I sure hope so.” Tatum also added that he’d expressed his enthusiasm to then-Disney CEO Bob Iger and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. “Of course I’ve said it. I’ve been saying I want it for the last 10 years,” he told Variety. “It’s in Bob Iger and Kevin Feige’s hands. I pray to God.” Iger handed the CEO job to Josh D’Amaro in March 2026.
What The “Avengers: Doomsday” Gambit Story Could Involve
Tatum’s mention of “gray” fits into several theories about the film. Trailers have teased Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom at the center of a multiversal crisis, with incursions threatening the X-Men’s world. Many fans believe that world is Earth-10005, the designation for Fox’s “X-Men” universe. ScreenRant has suggested the fallout could leave Gambit and Mystique as that universe’s last survivors.
Still, the Multiverse Saga has already shown that not every mutant in the MCU comes from the Fox films. In a post-credits scene in “The Marvels,” Lashana Lynch’s Maria Rambeau appeared as Binary, and Grammer turned up as an alternate version of Beast. Stewart played the Earth-838 Professor X, a member of the Illuminati, in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”
That history leaves room for “Avengers: Doomsday” to place Gambit somewhere else altogether, though Tatum did not confirm that. It would also make sense of his toned-down accent, which is far easier to understand in the new Dunkin’ commercial than it was in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” A separate universe could also ease a handoff to a new star in Marvel’s “X-Men” reboot, which Feige dated for May 5, 2028, at D23. For now, the confirmed details are limited. Tatum said Gambit’s roots connect to the X-Men timeline, and he acknowledged some uncertainty around that connection. Nothing in his comments settles which universe the character calls home.
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