At the time, Levy assumed this was an Easter egg Deadpool & Wolverine ’s visual effects team came up with, but after the interview, the director checked with the VFX department and learned that this ship wasn’t a Master & Commander callback after all. He wrote in a follow-up email:

In a twist of fate, Deadpool and Wolverine's Shawn Levy was once in talks to direct the canceled Gambit movie – years before Channing Tatum finally made his debut as the card-dealing X-Men member.

Channing Tatum hopes that he and Ryan Reynolds might be back on the big screen together in the future. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, the Blink Twice actor, 44, reposted an Instagram message from Reynolds, 48,