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'Night At The Museum 3' Moves Forward
When we were kids, museums were things to which our parents or elementary school teachers dragged us. Now, Fox intends to try and drag us to an entirely different type of unwanted museum excursion. The studio has put into motion the third installment of its 'Night at the Museum' franchise. They have already coaxed star Ben Stiller to return and now have hired Shawn Levy to once again handle directing duties. The last time we left this series, Stiller had experienced another grand-scale after-hours adventure, this time at the Smithsonian. The bountiful supporting cast from the first 'Night at the Museum' crossed over into absolutely enormous territory with 'Battle of the Smithsonian.' Fox has not let slip any details of the script, which will likely once again be penned by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, but they have set a release date of December 25th, 2014.
If you'll step this way, you'll see the actual fossil remains of anyone's interest in this franchise. I guess that's not entirely fair, as these movies inevitably make boatloads of cash. However, it's not as if you see scores of kids dressed as the characters from 'Night at the Museum' when you go to Comic-Con. These movies are bland, safe, wholly forgettable fluff that make for passing distractions for families on the weekends. They aren't what I would call well-constructed, and are especially poorly directed. If there was any potential at all for the third one to be anything interesting or even possibly a step up, it was dashed upon the rehiring of Shawn Levy. I've always found Levy to be one of those barely competent, gun-for-hire directors who will take on any crap project for the paycheck. The real challenge here however is the one facing the writers. Be it Lennon and Garant or otherwise, this series has already gone to The Smithsonian, how can they top that? The Louvre? Paintings coming to life and being confined to their frames? The possibilities are endless...ly troubling.
What do you guys think? Is there any way 'Night at the Museum 3' could work? Who would've been your choice to direct?
Source: Coming Soon
Views: 2805
Tags: Ben, Fox, Levy, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum 3, Shawn, Stiller, developing, director, sequel
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Comment by Cammix on February 11, 2013 at 1:13pm -
The first two were ok. Great premise, but mediocre writing. To me this franchise wouldve worked a lot better if it was animated and made by either pixar, dreamworks or blue sky.
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Comment by Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II on February 11, 2013 at 12:52pm -
I agree with you Mainstream 12.
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Comment by Dane on February 11, 2013 at 1:46am -
oh for f@@ks sake..........
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Comment by C on February 11, 2013 at 1:28am -
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Comment by Mainstream12 on February 10, 2013 at 9:35pm -
I saw the first two. They are what they are: harmless fun for families looking for something to watch when there's nothing else they can see together at the movie theatre. I don't think they're poorly-directed at all; they're just indistinguishable from any other studio comedy. And I think Fox hiring any other director would've still ultimately resulted in a movie that looks just like the first two.
More than the studio system though, this news is almost a perfect example of what I don't like about the news blog system. While I'm sure there are plenty of people interested in a third Night at the Museum, I seriously doubt that a significant percentage of that population frequents movie news sites like this, and thus this is just bait for commenters (and even the writer of this post) to go, "OMG WHO CAREZZZ?" The people who do care are a clear minority and just end up getting bullied by the people who spend way more time groaning about how bad they think these movies are than someone who's just indifferent. All because one site reports it, and then another site reports it, so now that two sites have reported it, a third site has to, and another, because it's all regurgitated.
Maybe lots of people do actually click on articles like these; maybe all the people moaning about how unbelievable it is that people actually watch these movies is enough traffic to warrant posting "news" like this. Otherwise though, Spill, you're the gatekeeper. You decide what you post. And if something like Night At The Museum 3 sounds so unappealing, I don't know what the point is in posting it.
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Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on February 10, 2013 at 5:51pm -
@Boatloads
Friedberg and Alkaseltzer keep finding work because there are morons like my girlfriend who think they're Shakespeare and Sandler and Stiller keep finding work because there are miserable guys like my old man who enjoys seeing well intentioned naive guys defeated by adversity!
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Comment by Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II on February 10, 2013 at 5:05pm
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@Mother: I do.
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Comment by Mother Superior Pumpkin Sinclair on February 10, 2013 at 3:53pm -
Who the hell goes and watches these movies?!!! REALLY?!
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Comment by Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II on February 10, 2013 at 3:39pm
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Why are we being negative about this instead of embracing it ?
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Comment by Boatloads1017 on February 10, 2013 at 11:55am -
@Happy BIrthday Roboto How do you think Friedberg and Seltzer keep getting work?
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