Channing Tatum has revealed new information about the upcoming standalone Gambit film.

During an interview with Empire, the actor revealed new details about the script and said the first draft was very good.

He said, "Josh Zetumer just turned in the first draft of the script, and it's killer. None of us were sure how he was going to deal with the 'X-Men' world. But we're going to be changing some of the tropes of these movies."

He added that the film could diverge from the typical saving-the-world story and could be similar to other films like "Batman Begins." He said, "It's always about saving the world, but maybe we're going to shift things a little bit. There's so many ways you can take [an origin story]. You could do it like 'Batman Begins,' or a different take and go the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' route. All I can say is, I'm super excited."

The movie would mark Tatum's first comic movie and his first big studio franchise. Tatum also spoke about his affinity for the character and said, "I love Gambit. ... I grew up in the South; my father's from Louisiana. We'd go to New Orleans and I heard all the dialects. It felt so different from the rest of America; it has its own ancient culture. So I identified with that. And he always felt the most real of the X-Men to me. He's kind of a tortured soul and he's not a good guy. But he's not a bad guy, either. He walks his own path. And of course he plays cards and drinks and is a martial-arts badass!"

Tatum is best known for his work on "21 Jump Street" and his latest award winning performance in "Foxcatcher." He is slated to be in "Magic Mike XXL", the follow-up to the 2012 film "Magic Mike," and he will also be seen in Joel and Ethan Coen's "Hail, Cesar!.

The Gambit character is rumored to be in "X-Men: Apocalypse" but nothing is confirmed.

The "Gambit" film is slated to hit theaters in 2016.

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