Thandiwe Newton is leaving Magic Mike’s Last Dance while Salma Hayek reprises her role in the Warner Bros. film. Production recently started in London.
“Thandiwe Newton has made the difficult decision to retire from producing Warner Bros. Pictures’ Magic Mike’s Last Dance to attend to family matters,” a Warners spokesman said in a statement.
Magic Mike’s Last Dance will premiere exclusively on HBO Max, and Channing Tatum will return as male stripper Mike Lane, a character loosely based on Tatum’s own experiences as a stripper in Florida. Details about the plot of Last Dance are not yet known, but the film is intended to conclude Magic Mike’s story.
The first Magic Mike film grossed $167 million at the box office, followed by the 2015 sequel Magic Mike XXL. The combined global gross of both films reached nearly $300 million. The franchise also spawned a lucrative stage show, Magic Mike Live, which ran in Las Vegas, London, Berlin and Australia.
Steven Soderbergh will return to the director’s chair after stepping down for the 2015 sequel. Reid Carolin, who wrote the first two Magic Mike films, is returning to write.
Newton is currently on screen with Chris Pine in All the Old Knives and last year appeared in Reminiscence for Warner Bros. and their Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy. Hayek appeared in last year’s Marvel Studios film Eternals and Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci and has a voice role in the upcoming animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. She is represented by CAA, Management 360 and Laird & Sobel.