“Anything below the belt is extra!”

One upcoming film gathering a lot of heat this year is Stephen Soderbergh’s Magic Mike; a planned biopic of a legendary stripper of the same name who mentors a young protegé into similar pants-dropping greatness, set to hit cinemas in June 2012.

When I say gathering a lot of heat, I don’t only mean the mounting entertainment press frenzy  around the production, but also the impressive set of Hollywood himbo’s Soderbergh is lining up to (amply…) fill assorted exotic roles in the film.

First to be cast was Channing Tatum (an ex-exotic dancer himself), who will play the title role. Then announcements followed that True Blood’s Joe Mangianello, I Am Number Four’s Alex Pettyfer, naked bongo-playing aficionado Matthew McConaughey, CSI Miami’s Adam Rodriguez and White Collar’s Matt Bomer will all also be joining the cast, resulting in the largest collection of man he-avage this side of The Avengers.