In a cover story for this month’s issue of GQ, Channing Tatum revealed the origin and central plots of the upcoming Magic Mike sequel, Magic Mike XXL.
From the article:
“When Tatum first started sharing his idea for a movie about his stripping past, there was one story he focused on. It was about going to a strippers' convention—thousands of women in a convention hall with one big stage on which maybe a hundred strippers appear. In fact, says Reid Carolin, Tatum's friend and producing partner who wrote the actual script, that was the first thing Tatum told him about those days: ‘I want to do the story of when I'm in a dark U-Haul with a bunch of these guys and we're doing drugs driving up to the stripper convention.' [Steven] Soderbergh says he steered them away from it, telling them, ‘You know what? It's too big—that idea alone is a movie.’
So there you have it, straight from the star’s mouth. Or G-string, or whatever.
[via GQ]
