‘Night at the Museum' Franchise Gets Reboot at Disney 20 Years After the First Film
Deadline reports that the reboot is being produced by 21 Laps' Dan Levine and Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine), who helmed the previous iteration of the franchise. Writer Tripper Clancy (Die Hart) has been tapped as the reboot's scribe. There's no word yet if Levy will take the filmmaking reins again, but it was specified that the new movies will take place in a new museum with new characters. It would be fun to see Stiller possibly make a return as a director instead of a star.
It's interesting to note the Disney connection here; over the years while the franchise went on, Disney and Jon Favreau had Magic Kingdom, a similar concept, in the works with Disney Parks as the museum stand-in. It was floated that the ride characters would come to life after dark. But now with both universes in the Mouse House, perhaps the Disneyland version of the concept could become an official spin-off to this planned Night at the Museum reboot.
Follow me here: the Imagineering arm of the parks industry, for example, has made historical figures into animatronics and will be adding one based on Walt Disney himself come Disneyland's 70th birthday, right? So maybe this time around, instead of these figures coming to life because of pure magic, perhaps the figures in the museum exhibits might be animatronics-based. It would be really unhinged to go with that thread and make this some sci-fi fare. Then we'd really want Stiller to come back and direct.
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