@bkmeijer2 -

Maybe we can still have Tatum as Gambit in the 3rd Deadpool.

@TheWalkingCuban - that wasn’t English

@regularmovieguy - Supposedly he lived in New Orleans for a time and can do a decent Cajun accent. I mean, I believe he's the one that claimed that, but still.

@ElricReturns - I don’t think Levi really did classic Shazam, so Tatum would’ve just done that dial up to 11, which maybe wouldn’t have been great.

@NicolausCopernicus - If I had my way, this is how Gambit would be in the MCU:

He's part of the X-Men, and he's got a shady past. Everyone knows he used to be a thief, but not much else. He's a bit stand-offish and people question what he's hiding about his past, but he's also 100% loyal to the team and has proven it over and over again. No one questions his loyalty, only what he's hiding.

When Sinister is finally revealed as a villain in the X-Men movies, we learn that Gambit lead Sinister's Marauders on a mission back in the day that where a bunch of innocent mutants were killed. (In the comics this would have been the Mutant Massacre, but since I doubt they'll introduce Morlocks, it can just be regular innocent mutants.)

This throws the X-Men's trust of Gambit out the window and he ends up leaving the team.

The Gambit movie should be a prequel showing Gambit living in New Orleans with the Thieves and Assassin's guilds at war. His powers back then are extremely strong, but very uncontrollable. Sinister seeks out Gambit after recognizing his power and makes a deal with him. Sinister fixes his powers and makes them much more controllable so he can get an edge on the Assassin's Guild. But in return, Gambit has to do complete an unknown task for Sinister at a later date. (We already know what that task was and the outcome of it because of the main X-Men movies)

Gambit helps defeat the Assassin's guild, with his newly found control over his powers.

Then, in a future X-Men movie, Gambit shows up to help the X-Men defeat Sinister and is welcomed back to the team after proving that he made a horrible mistake in his past, but that the X-Men can trust him.