Channing Tatum is spreading his beautiful wings. He is to star in new animated comedy Book of Life from Pacific Rim's Guillermo del Toro.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Magic Mike hunk will play Manolo a young man who is trying to choose his life's path and in order to do so he must go on an adventure that will take him through three fantastical worlds.

Of course the only problem with this movie is that it's animated so we won't get to see Channing in his human-formed glory, but it proves that the actor/dancer/model/stripper is hot stuff in Hollywood right now - this isn't even the only animated film he has signed up for. We can't wait to hear his dulcet tones as Superman in the Lego Movie.

Zoe Saldana, Christina Applegate and Diego Luna will co-star in the animated feature that will be released sometime in 2014.