Feb. 9 (UPI) —<\/span> Channing Tatum says Magic Mike 3<\/i> will be the “Super Bowl of stripper movies.”<\/p>\n The 41-year-old actor teased the film, officially titled Magic Mike’s Last Dance<\/i>, during Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Tatum plays Mike Lane in the Magic Mike<\/i> franchise, which follows a group of male strippers. The first two films, Magic Mike<\/i> (2012) and Magic Mike XXL <\/i>(2015), grossed nearly $300 million worldwide and inspired the stage show Magic Mike Live<\/i>, which launched in 2017.<\/p>\n On Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i>, Tatum said he was initially hesitant to make a third movie.<\/p>\n “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to make a third movie. I was like, we kind of did a lot in the first two movies,” the star said. “I was like, look, I’ll make … a third movie if we to one of two things — one, I wanted to make like the Super Bowl of stripper movies.”<\/p>\n “The first movies, we had to kind of stay honest to what that world is and the dancing’s not all that cool in the world and we pushed it a little bit, but I really want to have professional, just perfect, the best dancers in the world going off in this one,” he added. “And secondly, I wanted to have a really strong female central character.”\n<\/p>\n
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Channing Tatum teased “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” during an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” File Photo by Monika Graff\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n