Magic Mike

On the data. Three films, all Warner Bros., with genuine stated intervals between them, which makes the order easy but the titles and credits hard. The second film is Magic Mike XXL, not Magic Mike 2, and Steven Soderbergh did not direct it. Gregory Jacobs did. Soderbergh shot and edited it under the pseudonyms he always uses, Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard, which is why his name attaches to it in casual accounts. The gaps are worth knowing because the second and third films both open on a changed situation without recapping it. XXL is three years after the first film: Mike has quit stripping and runs a furniture business, Brooke has turned down his proposal and is gone, and Dallas is gone too. Mike initially believes Dallas died and then learns he simply walked out to start a new show in Macau, taking Adam with him. Last Dance is around a decade later again, with Mike in his forties and bartending in Miami after losing the furniture business in the pandemic. That last detail is the only connective tissue between the second and third films, and only Channing Tatum reprises a role. Do not expect Matthew McConaughey or Alex Pettyfer past the first film. Neither returns on screen. Finding Magic Mike premiered on HBO Max on 16 December 2021 with seven episodes. It is unscripted: ten men go through a Magic Mike Live bootcamp and one is crowned. Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh executive produced it and Adam Rodriguez, who plays Tito in the films, appears as himself rather than in character. Two finalists later joined the Las Vegas cast of Magic Mike Live. TMDB catalogues the series as 2022; HBO's own press and IMDb say 2021, and 2021 is used here. Magic Mike Live, the touring and residency stage show, is a separate thing again and is not a film. No fourth film has been announced, greenlit or dated. Soderbergh said in 2022 that he was open to expanding the series with stories about characters other than Mike Lane, which is interest rather than a project. One piece of obsolete information that still circulates: Magic Mike's Last Dance was originally announced as an HBO Max streaming original before being switched to a theatrical release. Articles calling it an HBO Max movie predate that change.

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