‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’: 5 Secrets About Channing Tatum’s ‘Super Bowl of Stripper Movies’
02.02.2022 - 20:03
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Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorAfter two movies, Channing Tatum thought he was done playing Magic Mike. But he’ll take one more swing around the stripper’s pole in “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” which begins shooting in London in March.In this week’s issue of Variety, Tatum talks about taking a four-year hiatus from acting to produce TV shows and movies with Free Association, the company that he launched in 2014 with his producing partner Reid Carolin. One of the company’s most anticipated projects is “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the third and (supposedly) final movie in the franchise that was inspired by Tatum’s days as an exotic dancer.The film, which will be directed by Steven Soderbergh from a script written by Carolin, will premiere on HBO Max.
Here’s what we learned about the film from our cover story. After the 2015 sequel “Magic Mike XXL” underperformed at the box office, Tatum and Carolin focused their attention elsewhere. In 2017, they opened “Magic Mike Live” in Las Vegas, a musical dance show that subverted expectations about male strippers.“I didn’t want to,” Tatum says, when asked about making a third film.
“My live show was the third one. We chewed all the meat off that – no pun intended.”But while Tatum was producing the live show, Soderbergh was developing his own “Magic Mike” stage musical bound for Broadway. The two projects weren’t supposed to intersect.
Then one night, Soderbergh went to see “Magic Mike Live” in London, and he was floored by the show’s themes of desire and how it shatters tropes about what women supposedly find sexy.Soderbergh got on the phone with Tatum and Carolin that night with a new plan. First, he decided to scrap the musical. “I said we’ve got to do another film,” Soderbergh
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