I mean, I got a call from the studio saying, ‘We have this project, ‘Gambit’, do you want to do it?’
Back then, Fox had some ambitious plans for their own X-Men cinematic universe, with spinoff movies for individual X-Men characters.
Now that the X-Men belong to Disney, the iconic mutants are set to make their triumphant debut in the MCU.
It seems, much like with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox was more interested in pushing out an X-Men movie quickly rather than waiting for the project to evolve organically.