Warner Bros. has set a July 3, 2015 release date for Magic Mike XXL (aka Magic Mike 2) of which star and co-writer Channing Tatum recently discussed with MTV saying, “I think everyone’s gonna be back, I think. Obviously no one’s deals are done which is always kind of scary.”
As for the plot, it’s just as before, the film is expected to be a road trip movie, but Tatum elaborated with MTV saying:
This one will be a road trip movie. Without giving a lot away, we don’t wanna make it a really serious, slice-of-life movie. We want to have reality in it, but we don’t want to make it some dark drama. There was some darkness in the last one that I think surprised people and shocked people. This one, we want there to be a lot of conflict and a lot of struggle, but we also want there to be a shit-ton of fun. A shit-ton of just ridiculous stuff that you would never see in a movie.
Gregory Jacobs, who served as Steven Soderbergh‘s first assistant director on the first film, will direct the picture and I guess we should expect, at the very least, the return of Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Adam Rodriguez, Cody Horn and Matthew McConaughey, but we’ll just wait and see on that.
As for that Gambit news in the headline, Bryan Singer has said he’d like to bring the Cajun superhero into the fold for X-Men: Apocalypse, the already dated sequel to this summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past and in the same MTV interview noted above (watch it below) Tatum says he’s already met with X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner about playing the role:
I met with Lauren Shuler Donner. And I would love it. Gambit is really the only X-Man I’ve ever loved. I mean I’ve loved them all, they’re all great, but I guess from being down south – my dad’s from Louisiana, I’m from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida – I don’t know. I just related to him. He’s just kind of suave… He’s the most un-X-Men, X-Man that’s ever been in X-Men. Other than maybe Wolverine, who’s like the anti-hero. He’s a thief. He’s not even a hero. He’s kind of walking the line of grey…He loves women and drinking and smoking and stuff so he’s just a cool guy who happens to have a moral center….I hope it [works out]. You never know it’s a weird industry. If the stars align, I would die to play it. I’m already working on the accent. It’s crappy at the moment.
X-Men: Apocalypse is currently slated for a May 27, 2016 release date so there’s still a little time to work out a deal.
