Tatum discusses ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance,’ the final installment of the stripper trilogy, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
After 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.
