Channing Tatum is in the running to direct ‘Magic Mike 2′ after admitting the original movie’s director Steven Soderbergh wants to retire, according to ‘Huffington Post’.
Back in July, Tatum excitedly revealed plans for a sequel to the surprise summer hit was in the card. “Yes, yes and yes!” he wrote in a Twitter Q&A for Glamour Magazine. “We’re working on the concept now. We want to flip the script and make it bigger.”
In a new interview with the German site ‘Filmstarts’, Tatum apparently revealed that hopes for ‘Magic Mike 2′ are still high.
“We really want to make it,” he said.. As for who would direct, with Steven Soderbergh forever on the cusp of retirement, Tatum offered himself. The original film also starred Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey and True Blood’s Joe Manganiello.
What will the plot of ‘Magic Mike 2′ look like? Whether that means the sequel would actually be a prequel to ‘Magic Mike’ — since Tatum’s title character walks away at the film’s conclusion — is unclear, but that option has previously been discussed.
“We’re actually talking about the possibility of doing the prequel,” co-star Joe Manganiello told Hollywood.com in June. “Because if you do the sequel, then you lose Mike (Channing Tatum’s character). Otherwise, what’s Mike going to do? He’s going to come back for one big heist … so, you would do the prequel — how they got there.”
Tatum also confirmed that the movie’s creative team will focus on turning ‘Magic Mike’ into a Broadway musical before they begin work on a sequel.
‘Magic Mike’, whose script was based on Tatum’s own experiences as a male stripper before he became famous, was one of the summer’s biggest surprise hits, grossing over $154 million worldwide on a $7 million budget.
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