Avengers: Doomsday Star Channing Tatum Calls Out Hollywood: Bad Movies Pay the Bills
Channing Tatum strips away Hollywood’s gloss, speaking bluntly about the machine behind the movies—and why it needs a reset.
Channing Tatum has some thoughts about where movies are right now, and spoiler: he is not exactly thrilled about it. But he is also not full doom-and-gloom either. Classic glass-half-something take.
Tatum on the streaming era: good, bad, and very confusing
On a new Hot Ones episode, Tatum basically says the current system is a mess from pitch to release. He doubled down on what he told Variety before, that streamers barged in and scrambled the whole ecosystem — for better and for worse — and now both the studios and the streamers are kind of looking at each other like, so... what now?
"You are incentivized to make bad things to get paid, rather than make something really, really good."
That is the inside baseball version of: the pipeline is confused, and the incentives are upside down. He also framed it like a fan — the kid who used to give his money to movies he loved — and said he still wants to put his money (and time) behind good stuff made for actual people in seats.
It is not all bleak, though. Tatum thinks the disruption needed to happen — the business had to morph — and he believes the shake-up can ultimately lead to something better.
Meanwhile, he is suiting up as Gambit again
If you caught Deadpool & Wolverine, you saw Tatum finally pop up as Gambit in a surprise cameo that turned into one of the big crowd-pleasers of that Phase 5 movie. He is bringing the card-slinging mutant back in Avengers: Doomsday, which is set to hit theaters next year.
Tatum has been hyping the movie pretty hard, saying Marvel keeps raising its own bar and somehow clearing it, and teasing that the new Avengers will go big enough to make your brain ooze out of your ears. Subtle? No. Effective? Absolutely.
The cast is stacked with returning faces across the Marvel multiverse:
- X-Men vets: Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen
- MCU regulars: Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Chris Hemsworth
- Plus the Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts* ensembles are back, too
Avengers: Doomsday arrives next December 18. Mark your calendar and maybe bring a mop for those reportedly oozing brains.