Steven Soderbergh on why a third Magic Mike movie was so "unexpected"
Exclusive: The filmmaker tells Total Film about being inspir⭕ed by the Magic Mike stage show

Magic Mike returns for one last thrust. Steven Soderbergh's series comes to a conclusion with the aptly named 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Magic Mike's Last Dance, and the director tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Total Film all about the upcoming trilogy 🌌topper in the new issue of the magazine, featuring Luther: The Fallen Sun on the cover. Here's a snippet of what the filmmaker had to say:
"A third Magic Mike movie was kind of unexpected. We were a couple of years into working on a stage version of the show – a more traditional Broadway version – and that was all going on while Chan and Reid [Carolin, screenwriter] and the choreographic team were also developing the live show. I’d seen some very early schematic workshops of the live show, and thought it was intriguing. But I really wasn’t prepared, 18 months later, for what I saw in London, which was the finishedꦓ version. And I was so captivated by it that I got on the phone, and said, 'I think we should abandon the Broadway idea, and I would like to make a movie that is a fictionalized version of how Mike comes up with the idea for the live show.'
"The basic premise of the movie is that Salma Hayek Pinault’s character offers Mike an opportunity to put on a show in London. So it’s another in a series of what I would call ‘process films’, where, like an Ocean’s movie, it’s an exploded view of somebody trying to solve a problem. In this case, it was a really fun mash-up of things that I like &꧒ndash; one of them being: showing people solving problems, the other being: people dancing!
"When it came to staging those sequences, it was a very, very tight schedule. I was watching a lot of musicals as we were going🐻, just to refresh my memory, and pick up ideas. But typically for some of these sequences, there was very little time, and I would have to really just operate on instinct and almost treat it like a sport. But I had all the support I needed, and all these fantastic dancers, so it wasn’t stressful, it was just super-fast.
For much more from Soderbergh, pick up a copy of the new issue of when it his newsstands (real and d🅰igital) on Thursday, January 12. As well as Magic Mikꦚe's Last Dance, the new issue features pieces on Luther: The Fallen Sun, Cocaine Bear, Knock at the Cabin, The Fabelmans, and much more.
Check out the covers below:
Sign up for the Total Film Newsletter
Bringing all 🗹the latest movie news,🌟 features, and reviews to your inbox
If you’re a fan, why not so that you never miss an issue? You’ll get the magazine befo꧃re it’s in shops, and you’ll get exclusive subscriber-only covers, and with our latest offer you can save up to 59% on the cover price. Head to to find out more (Ts and Cs apply)
Jamie Graham is the Editor-at-Large of Total Film magazine. You'll likely find them around these parts reviewing the biggest films on the planet and spea♓king to some of the biggest stars in the business – that's just what Jamie does. Jamie has also written for outlets like SFX and the Sunday Times Culture, and appeared on podcasts exploring the wondrous worlds of occult and horror. ꦍ;