Digg
Facebook
Twitter
Last FM
Linkedin
StumbleUpon
Technorati
Christopher Guest Takes "Terrible" Role in 'Night at the Museum' Sequel
I don't have a problem with actors and filmmakers
juggling commerce and craft. If you like making documentaries about monks and
they're great documentaries, that can be its own reward...but it probably
doesn't pay very well. So, if somebody wants you to be a villain in a kid's
movie, why not? It'll pay the mortgage and allow you to keep doing what you're
good at, making those monk documentaries.
Christopher Guest falls squarely into that
category. The man behind the mockumentaries
Waiting for Guffman,
Best in Show,
A Mighty Wind, and
For Your Consideration doesn't get rich making
his very specific style of film. In fact, he might make just as much directing
the new series of DirecTV ads featuring members of his ensemble, Ed Begley Jr.
and John Michael Higgins. So if Guest wants to take a role in a movie guaranteed to
make money and earn an easy payday for a change, I won't complain.
Guest has signed on to play Ivan the Terrible in the
upcoming sequel
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
At least that's what
The Hollywood Reporter is calling it. Up until
now, I had heard it referred to as Escape from the Smithsonian, but
whatever. Also playing violent men from the past are Bill Hader (Custer), John
Bernthal (Al Capone...wait, Al Capone's in the Smithsonian?), and French actor
Alain Chabat (Napoleon).
Ben Stiller will star, of course, and Owen
Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, and Robin Williams will all return.
Currently filming in Vancouver, look for Night at the
Museum in theaters on May 22nd next year, and hopefully the news about Guest
means we can see another inspired mockumentary (more Best in Show, less
For Your Consideration) shortly thereafter.
Posted on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 11:51AM
by
Colin Boyd
in Casting Couch, Sequels, Ben Stiller, Christopher Guest, Night at the Museum
|
1 Comment
Colin Boyd
in Casting Couch, Sequels, Ben Stiller, Christopher Guest, Night at the Museum
|
1 Comment
Reader Comments (1)
So Ben Stiller is on the verge of legitimacy again with Tropic Thunder, and he wants to go back to the museum?
Can't wait for a third round of Fokkers too.
Yay.
Not.