EXCLUSIVE: After turning Night time on the Museum into one of the crucial profitable household movie franchises of the twenty first century, 21 Laps has begun growth on a reimagining for twentieth Century Studios, enlisting Tripper Clancy to jot down the script, sources inform Deadline.
Whereas specifics as to the plot are underneath wraps, the movie is alleged to be a brand new story set on the museum with all-new characters. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps, with Emily Morris overseeing the mission for the corporate.
A frequent collaborator of 21 Laps, Clancy has additionally labored with the corporate and Netflix as co-EP of the collection I Am Not Okay With This, in addition to in growing Bolivar, a hybrid TV collection based mostly on the beloved youngsters’s ebook with Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon.
Originating again when twentieth Century Studios was twentieth Century Fox, the Night time on the Museum franchise adapts the 1993 youngsters’s ebook by Milan Trenc, the place an evening watchman at a pure historical past museum sees his job descend into chaos when reveals come to life after darkish. 21 Laps’ Levy directed and Ben Stiller led three movies, every of which was successful on the world field workplace: 2006’s Night time on the Museum (~$574M WW), 2009’s Night time on the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (~$413M WW), and 2014’s Night time on the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (~$363M WW). Levy additionally produced every installment. Supporting solid over the course of the trilogy included Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Dan Stevens, and Insurgent Wilson.
Following Disney’s acquisition of Fox in 2019, the studio moved to additional develop the franchise with Night time on the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Once more, an animated characteristic produced by Levy for Disney+, which premiered in 2022.
A WGA Award winner, Clancy is finest identified for writing every installment within the Die Hart franchise, starring Kevin Hart, for Roku and Amazon. Up to now, he’s additionally co-created a Varsity Blues reboot for Quibi, developed the novel The Artwork of Fielding with Mike Tollin as a miniseries for Netflix, written for Pixar, and penned the buddy motion comedy Stuber on spec, promoting it to Fox with Goldstein & Daley producing in addition to Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista starring. He’s represented by Verve, Kaplan/Perrone, and Gregg Gellman at Morris Yorn.
Coming off a record-breaking 2024 with Deadpool & Wolverine, which grew to become the highest-grossing R-rated film in historical past with a worldwide gross exceeding $1.3 billion, 21 Laps’ upcoming slate consists of the fifth and remaining season of Netflix’s Stranger Issues, which premieres later this 12 months. Most lately, the corporate has introduced characteristic diversifications of Grady Hendrix’s brief story “The Blanks” and Freida McFadden’s psychological thriller By no means Lie for Netflix, in addition to a Madonna restricted collection for a similar streamer, the place 21 Laps has a long-term deal. They named Robert Atwood Head of Tv in April. As a director, Levy’s subsequent mission is Star Wars: Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling, which he’s additionally producing. Pic goes into manufacturing this fall and can be launched theatrically on Might 28, 2027.
Levy and his 21 Laps are repped by WME, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, and Ziffren Brittenham.
