NEED TO KNOW
- A reboot of the Night at the Museum franchise is in development
- The new movie will focus on new characters and an original storyline instead of revisiting Ben Stiller’s Larry Daley, the protagonist of the three Night at the Museum movies released between 2006 and 2014
- Robin Williams, Rami Malek, Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan costarred with Stiller in the original Night at the Museum movies
Almost 20 years after Ben Stiller first portrayed a man who takes a night shift security gig at New York City’s Museum of Natural History, audiences can start preparing for another Night at the Museum.
On Wednesday, June 9, multiple outlets reported that Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy’s production company 21 Laps Entertainment has started developing a new Night at the Museum movie for Disney’s 20th Century Studios.
According to the reports, the in-the-works movie will tell an original story centered around new characters at the museum. Levy, who directed the first 2006 movie and its 2009 and 2014 sequels Battle of the Smithsonian and Secret of the Tomb, will produce the movie through 21 Laps alongside Dan Levine and the company’s executive vice president Emily Morris. Tripper Clancy, the screenwriter behind comedies like 2019’s Stuber and Kevin Hart’s series Die Hart, will write the new movie, according to reports.
Night at the Museum was loosely adapted from a 1993 children’s book titled The Night at the Museum, by Milan Trenc. The movie followed Stiller, now 59, as a divorced man named Larry Daley, who takes a job as a night security guard at Manhattan’s Museum of Natural History and finds that an ancient Egyptian artifact at the museum causes its exhibits come to life at night.
Larry is forced to manage the rambunctious historical exhibits and eventually battles with the museum’s older, retiring security guards (Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney), whom he discovers have benefited from the Egyptian artifact’s magic and attempt to steal it. Aside from Stiller, Van Dyke and Rooney, the movie also costarred Carla Gugino, Ricky Gervais, Rami Malek, Paul Rudd, Robin Williams, Rami Malek, Steve Coogan, Mizuo Peck and Owen Wilson.
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The movie’s sequels follow Larry as he travels to Washington, D.C. as the magic artifact is moved to the Smithsonian Institution in the nation’s capital and Larry’s efforts to save his friends from the exhibit from losing their ability to come to life as he travels to London’s British Museum.
It’s unclear who may star in the new Night at the Museum movie; information on casting, as well as who will direct the film or when it will release has not yet been released.
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