I really best films of the year so far. However, to hear a sequel is being considered tells me whomever is doing the considering had no idea what made the first film so good.
Speaking with Glamour UK, Channing Tatum was asked about a potential sequel (you know, because it so obviously was a franchise starter) to which he responded, “Yes, yes and yes! We’re working on the concept now. We want to flip the script and make it bigger.”
“We want to flip the script and make it bigger”? Who the hell is this “we” he’s referring to and what the hell does that mean? Did he see the first film? Was that actually him in it? Did he notice the ending? Does he realize Mike wasn’t a superhero or a G.I. Joe? Or does he somehow believe he’s going to take the whole “based on my life” thing even farther?
Perhaps Mike is going to be discovered on the street, become a model, dance in a Ricky Martin video (or the equivalent) and five years later find himself in a small role in a film before being caught in a vortex seven years later where the process repeats itself only to eventually learn he’s been looking down a hallway of mirrors for the last ten minutes. Get Fellini to direct that and you may have something.
I have to assume the above scenario won’t be the direction their considering. After all, that would be sticking to the script and not flipping it. You gotta flip it, flip it for real.
Instead, maybe Mike will have to end up saving Brooke (Cody Horn) from invading underpants gnomes, or maybe he’ll just become a superhero and learn the sister he never knew he had also has superpowers and they are actually gods and then they’ll destroy a city together. Then again, vampires are still a pretty big deal nowadays, that would really be flipping the script. Let’s see how that would play out…
Shortly after the events in Magic Mike, Mike is bitten by a vampire and has to live a life in the shadows. He returns to stripping since it allows him to go out when the sun goes down no questions asked. His dreams of making custom furniture also become a reality as he can now build his pieces much faster due to his super-duper-vampire speed using pieces he finds in alleyways on his way home from work.
Brooke helps out by running their custom furniture shop, but their schedules and the fact he’s a vampire are starting to cause friction in the relationship. She begs him to turn her into a bloodsucker, but his love for her won’t allow him to give in and turn her into the soulless creature he has become.
Brooke begs and pleads only to see him turn away from her tears forcing her to run off into the sun, knowing he can’t follow. Little did she know, danger lurks in the daylight and she is eventually kidnapped by Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello), a rival stripper Mike once danced with, but has now returned from Miami and reveals he’s actually a werewolf and has always been in love with Brooke.
In order to save the one he loves Mike may have to do the unthinkable, a fact that becomes all the more real when he learns… Brooke is eating for two.
Hmmm, that’s a little complicated, it might not work. Tell me, how would you flip the script?
