Josh Holloway to Play Gambit in X-Men

'Lost' star Josh Holloway is being tipped to star in the next X-Men movie. Holloway, who plays fan favorite Sawyer on the hit TV show, will be cast as Gambit, the X-man comic book mutant who possesses the ability to charge objects with energy, causing them to explode.
Holloway was set to appear in “X-Men 3”, but had to decline the offer. "He auditioned. He signed. He was ready for work”, a source told Moviehole.
“They may say that they just didn’t have a use for him in that movie, but the truth is, Lost wouldn’t let him go for the period of time it was going to take to film his part”.
The film's producer Lauren Shuler Donner told Moviehole, "Remember in Lost? There was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the straight hair, good-looking, the bad boy… Sawyer. The reason we didn't use Gambit was because in a sense his persona is a bit like Wolverine in that he's got attitude and his power is not quite as exciting as the others."
"That's why we went to Nightcrawler on 2 because he looked different than everybody else and he had a great power. So yes, I think we would weave Gambit within our story, (but) it wouldn't be The Gambit Movie."