During the conversation with Vulture, interviewer Matt Zoller Seitz asked director Steven Soderbergh what made him want to return to the world of Magic Mike for a third film. The director responded promptly: he loved the idea of making a process film, inspired by the real life “Magic Mike” live show.
When asked to elaborate, Soderbergh said, “What was most exciting for me after I saw the live show in its final form was the idea of making a movie about how Channing came up with that show. It sounds stupid to say that I was surprised at how good it was. After I saw it in London, I got on the phone that night and told everybody what I wanted to do, which meant setting aside the ‘Magic Mike’ Broadway show that we’d been developing for quite a while. So it was a big phone call.”
Further, there were themes that Soderbergh wanted to explore, which could be seen, to begin with, in the live show. The director explained, “I think it’s a very interesting time to be having conversations about what is desire, what is fantasy, what is the difference between sexuality and sensuality.”
While Channing Tatum had his own conditions for returning to the franchise, it’s good for fans that this bit of inspiration sparked a whole additional film.
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