‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’: first trailer for Channing Tatum’s Stripper trilogy finale

It is said early, but it has been ten years since Channing Tatum and his gang of strippers strutted the stage in ‘Magic Mike’, and now, after all this time, Mike Lane prepares to delight the audience with his latest dance. Steven Soderbergh, director of the first chapter of that blockbuster, returns after leaving the baton in its sequel, to put himself back in charge the film that officially closes the trilogy, ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’, which has decided to warm up this cold November with its first trailer.

‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ comes 8 years after ‘Magic Mike XXL’ and with the property transformed into a live entertainment franchise, with venues in the US and UK. Originally, this third installment was going to premiere exclusively on HBO Max, but with the arrival of David Zaslav as top executive at Warner Bros., plans changed. Luckily for Tatum, ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ didn’t suffer the same fate as ‘Batgirl’ (whose late-production cancellation rocked the industry last August), and went from streaming launch to theatrical release, demonstrating full faith in the saga, which has proved very profitable for the company.

With premiere set for February 10, 2023 in the United States, strategically placed to celebrate Valentine’s Day, ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ sees the return of Tatum at the helm of the cast, who also serves as executive producer, as usual. His regular collaborator Reid Carolin is re-engaged as writer and producer, continuing his fruitful creative relationship with Tatum, with whom he co-directed ‘Dog.’ A Wild Ride’ recently. Joins the saga of Salma Hayek,

In the preview, to the rhythm of Donna Summer’s ‘Last Dance’, the absence of any other actor from the previous two films (Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello…) is striking. And is that this final delivery takes us back to Mike Lane in a new phase, where He left that life behind and is now working as a waiter in Florida after a deal went wrong and left him bankrupt.. Hayek plays a high-society powerwoman who, after starting a passionate relationship with Mike and discovering his enormous talent for dancing, proposes that he travel to London to create a show with new dancers. In this way the fiction (loosely) adapts reality by bringing Magic Mike to the British capital, something Tatum already did in real life a few years ago. The main cast is completed by Ayub Khan Din, Jemelia George, Juliette Motamed and Vicki Pepperdine.. The film does not yet have a release date in Spain.

dance to success

‘Magic Mike’ was one of the big box office surprises of 2012. The film directed by Steven Soderbergh It had a small budget of just $7 million, raising a total of $167.73 million worldwide.. With that result, Warner Bros. wasted no time in granting him a sequel, ‘Magic Mike XXL’, which grossed a little less (117.8 million), but enough to keep the franchise alive and bring Tatum to expand it with a live show. dancing in Las Vegas, which then extended to London, we were saying, and included a tour in the United States. Also, in 2021, “Looking for Magic Mike” premiered on HBO Max, a reality contest dedicated to finding a new star dancer for the “Magic Mike Live” show.

‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ puts the finishing touch on the trilogy starring Tatum, but despite the actor safe that this is yours “last dance”that’s not to say the movie is the end of the property, since his name has transcended the cinema to become a brand in its own right off the screen.