Tuesday
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'Magic Mike XXL' adds Donald Glover, Elizabeth Banks
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 2:45PM Margaret here with a reminder to get your singles out and ready: the Magic Mike sequel has just added even more talent to its muscle-bound cast.
Next in line for a full-body wax are Community's Donald Glover (better known to some as rapper Childish Gambino) and morning show host / former NFL player Michael Strahan. Elizabeth Banks, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Andie MacDowell are also attached.
Warner Bros. also released an official plot synopsis for Magic Mike XXL:
Picking up the story three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, Magic Mike XXL finds the remaining Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blow-out performance in Myrtle Beach, and with legendary headliner Magic Mike sharing the spotlight with them. On the road to their final show, with whistle stops in Jacksonville and Savannah to renew old acquaintances and make new friends, Mike and the guys learn some new moves and shake off the past in surprising ways.
Those who might be mourning the departure of Matthew McConaughey will likely be cheered by the confirmation that Channing Tatum will be back in tear-away pants for at least a cameo role. (None of us are going to miss Alex Pettyfer's Adam character, right?)
The original Steven Soderbergh film, despite all its bachelorette-party hype, was very well-received by critics and praised for being naturalistic and sensitive. Now its successor looks to be carrying over the sense of raunchy fun, but as yet there's no indication that it will also have similar artistic merit. Magic Mike XXL will be helmed by Gregory Jacobs, a frequent Soderbergh collaborator but fairly untested as a feature director.
As a sequel and a road trip movie, and absent the guidance of Steven Soderbergh, does this have any chance of being a quality film? Does it need to?
Reader Comments (10)
Margaret: Not sure it needs to be quality, but good on them for trying to make this a budget franchise.
I just hope they don't use the same yellowish-orange color tones throughout this one.... I've never seen a beach scene look so ugly before in its predecessor.
Oh, this sounds bad. I'll save my singles.
volvag -- i don't know. sounds like Channing is killing this as a potential long running source of income (if you ask me they shouldn't have relied on the old cast that much and just kept changing the roster - instant blockbuster franchise) since it's about a farewell performance.
david -- yeah. soderbergh just really loves yellow. (my least favorite color)
Julianne Moore will compete as probably BSA for the oscars this year.
http://www.awardscircuit.com/2014/09/29/maps-to-the-stars-will-get-a-2014-qualifying-run-for-julianne-moore/
Accordint to IMDb (suspect!) Soderbergh is still attached as cinematographer (under that pseudonym he uses, Peter Andrews) so permayhaps we're still in for a whole lot of yellow.
I was pretty much a no when they announced Andy McDour had been cast. She smells Straight to Video for me. The rest of the casts sounds like a roster of cameos rather than any real sense of story so I'm going to need some convincing to see this one.
Well...I'll miss Alex Pettyfer...
The first movie was surprisingly complex for what is basically a male stripper musical
I would love to see Donald Glover in any state of undress, but I'm not even remotely excited about this "Magic Mike" sequel. Not. Remotely.