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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Director: Shawn Levy
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Starring: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat, Robin Williams
Language: English
Country: United States
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is a 2009 American adventure comedy film and the sequel to the American adventure comedy film Night at the Museum. The film stars Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Rami Malek, Hank Azaria, Bill Hader, Ricky Gervais, Christopher Guest and Steve Coogan. It is set for release on May 22, 2009, and is rated PG for mild action and brief language.
Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox’s tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon provide the script, with Chris Columbus returning to handle producing duties. Amy Adams (Enchanted) and Hank Azaria join the returning cast of Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, and Owen Wilson.
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world’s largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone’s (Jon Bernthal) rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy’s ruby slippers, Fonzie’s jacket from Happy Days, the still from M*A*S*H and Archie Bunker’s lounge chair from All in the Family.
With a forwarded resume, Larry (Ben Stiller) becomes another caretaker at the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah, an evil Pharaoh will come to life with the reestablishing of a tablet as a magical force in the museum bringing the old exhibits (Such as Theodore Roosevelt and Dexter) and new exhibits (like General Custer and Al Capone) back to life, and in conflict with each other. Larry enlists the help of Amelia Earheart, who he develops a romantic interest in, and together they try to put everything back in order.
Writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon confirmed to Dark Horizons that they were writing a sequel to Night at the Museum, originally with a tentative title Another Night at the Museum. The writers said that “there’ll be existing characters and plenty of new ones.”
20th Century Fox announced that the sequel, now titled Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, is scheduled for a Memorial Day weekend release on May 22, 2009. Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, and Dick Van Dyke will return for the sequel, with Shawn Levy back in the director’s chair, and it will be the first major Hollywood feature to be filmed at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.. It is largely being filmed in Vancouver. Due to the nature of the complex story more historical figures are involved, such as Amelia Earhart, who will be portrayed by Amy Adams. A new villainous pharaoh will be played by Hank Azaria, who confirmed the return of Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais, and Steve Coogan.
The film was confirmed as shooting a scene at the Lincoln Memorial on the night of May 21, 2008. It was also shooting a scene at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on the nights of the eighteenth and twentieth of August 2008 where a red airplane could be seen. The trailer was released with Bedtime Stories, Yes Man and Marley & Me in December 2008, January 2009 with Bride Wars, and again in February and April 2009 with The Pink Panther 2 and Dragonball Evolution.
The score to Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was composed by Alan Silvestri, who reunites with director Shawn Levy after working together on the first film. Silvestri recorded his score with a 103-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony and an 18-person choir at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.The soundtrack and closing credits will feature “Fly With Me” by the pop-rock boy band Jonas Brothers from their upcoming fourth album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times.
Cast:
- Ben Stiller as Lawrence “Larry” Daley
- Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt
- Owen Wilson as Jedediah Smith
- Steve Coogan as Octavius
- Ricky Gervais as Dr. McPhee
- Rami Malek as Ahkmenrah
- Brad Garrett as the voice of Easter Island Head
- Jake Cherry as Nicholas “Nick” Daley
- Patrick Gallagher as Attila the Hun
- Mizuo Peck as Sacagawea
- Pierfrancesco Favino as Christopher Columbus
- Martin Christopher as Meriwether Lewis
- Martin Sims as William Clark
- Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart
- Hank Azaria as Kah Mun Rah and other voices, including the Lincoln Memorial and The Thinker
- Bill Hader as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
- Christopher Guest as Ivan the Terrible
- Jon Bernthal as Al Capone
- Alain Chabat as Napoleon Bonaparte
- Eugene Levy as Albert Einstein
- Keith Powell as Tuskegee Airman 1
- Craig Robinson as Tuskegee Airman 2
- Christopher Lee as Charles Darwin
- Thomas Lennon as Wilbur Wright
- Robert Ben Garant as Orville Wright
- Nick Dash as Ulysses S. Grant
- Jonah Hill as Smithsonian Museum security Guard
- Mindy Kaling tour guide at Smithsonian Museum (see trailer)
- Ed Helms as one of Larry’s co-workers
- Alberta Mayne as Kissing Nurse
- Clint Howard as part of one of the space exploration exhibits
- Carroll Spinney as Oscar the Grouch
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