Ricky Gervais, too, is in the Museum
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Could Shawn Levy's Night
at the Museum have a more packed cast? Man alive. In addition to star Ben Stiller, the movie's got Hollywood legends Dick
Van Dyke and Mickey
Rooney, goddess Carla Gugino, and the recently-added Robin
Williams, who will get to fulfill the dream we all have of playing Teddy Roosevelt. Now Levy has revealed that Ricky Gervais has also come on board, apparently to repay Stiller for
his appearance on Gervais' Extras. Gervais will play the
director of New York's Museum of Natural History, a character who, according to Levy, is "very uptight." Just the thought of Gervais playing someone uptight is funny - this movie has so much potential that it's sort of scary to think about what a freaking disaster it could turn into. I mean, let's keep in mind that it's mixing live action with CG work, and is about "an ancient curse that causes the animals and insects on display to come to life and wreak havoc." Finding the right tone for this one just seems like it's going to be really, really hard.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-31-2006 @ 6:13PM
Christopher Campbell said...
Too bad Shawn Levy is one of the lamest directors in Hollywood. We'll see if a great cast can distract us from this fact.
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2-01-2006 @ 7:25AM
Josh Boelter said...
Ricky Gervais in anything is a great idea. Why isn't he being offered any leads? The man's a comic genius.
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2-01-2006 @ 8:01PM
kane said...
he probably is. he's stated many times before that he's turned down loads of acting roles because he doesn't lass himself as a proper "actor" as such. so it wouldn;t surprise me if the reason actually IS a favour to repay Stiller for Extras.
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