UPDATE: Hold Off On The Retirement Party! Steven Soderbergh Takes On New Pic Inspired by Channing Tatum's Stripper Days (Deadline Hollywood)
**UPDATE**: If Steven Soderbergh really is determined to retire from film
making, he's not doing a very good job of it. He's been so prolific lately
that he's like the Natalie Portman of directors. Now, he has just committed to
direct Channing Tatum in _Magic Mike,_ a story of friendship set in the world
of male strippers. Tatum plays the title character, who schools a young dancer
in how to hustle on and off the stage. It's a wild summer of dancing, partying
and women. The inspiration for the film is Channing's own experiences as a
stripper when he was 19. Nick Wechsler is producing with Gregory Jacobs, Tatum
and Reid Carolin. Carolin is writing the script. "When Channing talked to me
about this, I thought it was one of the best ideas I'd ever heard for a
movie," Soderbergh said in a statement. "I said I wanted in immediately. It's
sexy, funny and shocking. We're using Saturday Night Fever as our model, so
hopefully we're on the right track." Said Tatum: "This was a wild and pivotal
time in my life and I couldn't be more thrilled to go down the rabbit ...
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