JupiterAscending “was a nightmare from the jump,” Channing Tatum says. “It was a sideways movie. All of us were there for seven months, busting our hump. It was just tough.”
,” he adds to his ever-expanding look book with Dash — a model who graces the cover of a series of romance novels by a bestselling author , the victim of a kidnapping scheme. In the upcoming Paramount Pictures comedy, Tatum dons an unbuttoned white linen shirt and acid-washed jeans as he shows off his golden locks.
But in front of the camera, Tatum was pushing himself too hard, and he burned out. “I felt like I was the fat kid at the buffet, just working and working and working,” he says. “I took four movies back to back without any time off. I wasn’t as good as I wanted to be in those last two movies because I didn’t have the energy.”
“I saw it and really liked it,” says Steven Soderbergh, who is directing Tatum in “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the third and presumed final chapter in the “Magic Mike” franchise, which starts shooting in London next month. “I was really proud of them,” Soderbergh says of Tatum and Carolin, sounding like the world’s coolest parent. “If people didn’t know Channing and Reid were making their directorial debut and saw it without the credits, it has all the elements of a polished studio movie.
During his break from headlining movies, Tatum gave himself time to think about what he wanted. He even contemplated quitting the business in 2018, around the time he announced his divorce from Jenna Dewan, whom he’d met on his breakout movie, 2006’s “Step Up.” “Do I want to act anymore?” Tatum says he asked himself. “Was I going to direct? Do I want to be in the industry anymore? I got lucky. I won a creative lottery ticket.
In 2017, Tatum and Carolin were on the ground producing “Magic Mike Live,” which launched in Las Vegas as a Cirque du Soleil-style event and opened in London a year later. Before the pandemic, the show was selling to crowds of 300,000 annually, grossing $80 million to $100 million a year. While COVID-19 has put a damper on the live event business — closing productions in Australia and Berlin — Kiernan says that a Miami version will launch later in the year as part of a U.S. traveling tour.
Another missed opportunity: Tatum and Carolin spent four years developing “Gambit,” a raunchy stand-alone superhero movie about the “X-Men” mutant, for 20th Century Fox. “The studio really didn’t want us to direct it,” Tatum says. “They wanted anybody but us, essentially, because we had never directed anything.”
Lulu died the day after they came home, and he was a ball of tears as he told the story to Carolin. They decided that this could be their next movie together. The original script for “Dog” was darker and less upbeat. “We wrote it as an R-rated comedy with adult themes,” Carolin says. But as time passed, “we consciously decided, ‘Let’s make it PG-13.’ Both of us felt like we had to make it more accessible.
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