Salma Hayek Replacing Thandiwe Newton in ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’

Academy Award nominee Salma Hayek is becoming a member of the cast of Channing Tatum’s new “Magic Mike” sequel, changing initial female lead Thandiwe Newton.

“Thandiwe Newton has manufactured the difficult decision to move absent from the output of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Magic Mike’s Previous Dance to offer with relatives issues,” a spokesperson for the studio advised Assortment on Wednesday.

The movie is getting manufactured solely for HBO Max. Reid Carolin, who wrote the initially two motion pictures, is returning as screenwriter. The film’s initial director Steven Soderbergh is again at the helm. The 3rd installment is anticipated to wrap a bow on the trilogy. Creation just began in the U.K. “Magic Mike XXL” director Gregory Jacobs is manufacturing with Carolin, Nick Wechsler and Peter Kiernan.

In his February cover interview with Wide range, Tatum and Carolin hinted that the guide feminine function would be essential to the sequel’s plot.

“It’s truly about a girl trapped at a awful strip present like a Chippendales and then acknowledging, ‘What the hell am I executing below?’” Carolin explained at the time. “And then Magic Mike arrives down from the ceiling. She will get to go down the rabbit hole and asks: What do I definitely want?”

Tatum added that the character is “really powerful, just about stronger than Mike … we have in no way done a classic enjoy tale, and this is not a traditional like story.”

The first two “Magic Mike” films grossed almost $300 million at the worldwide box place of work, and have spawned a dwell phase present franchise taking part in cities such as London, Las Vegas, Berlin and Australia.