With production due to start soon, Shawn Levy is busy filling out the cast of Night Of The Museum 3. Now he’s added another name, as Deadline reports that Ben Kingsley has signed up for the movie. He joins returning stars such as Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan, as well as newcomers Dan Stevens and Rebel Wilson.
Kingsley with play a formidable Egyptian pharaoh who is on display in the British Museum – and yes, that does mean the franchise is moving to Britain this time. It’s not known whether Kingsley’s character will be on the side of good or bad, although it’s believed Dan Steven’s Sir Lancelot will be the main bad guy this time around. It’s also not known if the British Museum will be the only one of London’s attractions which will come to life in the film.
Shawn Levy will once more direct, working from a screenplay by franchise creators Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. Night At The Museum is currently due out just before Christmas.
Brad Anderson’s career has certainly has its up and downs. He got major praise for The Machinist, but few saw Transsiberian, and Vanishing On 7th Street was such a disaster it was quietly slipped out with nobody noticing. However he’s had a bit of a boost with the recent The Call, and now he’s lining up Eliza Graves.
There have been an awful lot of Iron Man 3 posters released, and now we’ve got another one, which is essentially a composite of the previously released character posters. It’s pretty cool, even if Ben Kingsley’s Mandarin does look like he’s randomly floating in the background.
After the Oscar-nominated success of Paranorman, animation studio Laika has revealed their third movie, The Boxtrolls, based in Alan Snow‘s book Here Be Monsters! Open Season co-director Anthony Stacchi and Coraline/ParaNorman story artist Graham Annable are set to direct the movie, which already has an impressive voice cast attached.
Jennifer Aniston, Mark Duplass and Ben Kingsley certainly make an interesting cast for a comedy.