WASHINGTON — If you want to live in the world of “Magic Mike,” you’ll only have to wait about a year — and head to Las Vegas.
Channing Tatum has announced the live Las Vegas version of his two movies about the male-stripper world with a video on Cosmopolitan’s YouTube channel filled with muscular, scantily-clad men, as well as humor and puppies.
As Tatum strolls through “my house filled with hot men that I live with every day,” he recounts the thought process behind the next step for the “Magic Mike” franchise.
“3D hasn’t been cool since ‘Avatar’,” he muses, before considering a virtual-reality version, then channeling Justin Timberlake in “The Social Network” — “What if you just dropped the ‘virtual?‘ Magic Mike — reality.”
After an R-rated nod to the iconic line from “Field of Dreams” that you can probably work out for yourself, Tatum announces that the show will open at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Café in March 2017. Tatum tells The Associated Press that he won’t appear in the show himself.
At last, Tatum says, women will get “the same options as men have been given for centuries,” proclaiming that the Vegas show will create “the first gentle ladies club. Or — maybe not so gentle; depends what you’re into.” He solicits suggestions for the show in the comments.
Then come the puppies.
