The third and probably final installment in the highly successful Night at the Museum comedy film franchise is scheduled for release to theaters starting December 19, 2014. Entitled Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Ben Stiller will reprise his role as Larry Daley, a night watchman at the American Museum of Natural History where exhibits magically come to life at dusk on account of the power of the Golden Tablet of Pharoah Akhmenrah.
Directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay written by Robert Ben Garant, David Guion, Michael Handelman and Thomas Lennon, Night at the Museum 3 will follow Larry as he travels the globe in search of a way to somehow recharge the waning powers of the mystical Egyptian artifact for the sake of his night time friends at the museum. Larry will proceed to the Egyptian wing of the British Museum to find answers. Director Levy tells USA Today, "We go to the British Museum in the second half of the movie because that is where the answers lie. It's not because it felt like time to get on an airplane." In London, they will unravel the secret of the tomb of Akhmenrah's father, the Tablet's creator.
In his trip to London, Larry will bring along his friends Pharoah Akhmenrah (Rami Malek), President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacagawea (Mizuo Peck), Jebediah (Owen Wilson) and Octavius (Steve Coogan). At the British Museum, they will meet Akhmenrah's father (Ben Kingsley) and Sir Lancelot (Dan Stevens).
Others in the cast of Night at the Museum 3 include Rebel Wilson as a museum security guard, Skylar Gisondo as Larry's son Nick, Ricky Gervais as Dr. McPhee, Rachel Harris as Madeleine Phelps, Dick Van Dyke as Cecil Fredericks, Bill Cobbs as Reginald and Mickey Rooney in his final movie performance as Gus. The 93-year old Rooney finished his scenes for Night at the Museum before he died on April 6.
