Shawn Levy, who is a week away from beginning production on the Ben Stiller fantasy film Night at the Museum, told SCI FI Wire that he's looking forward to shooting inside New York's famous Museum of Natural History.
"We're going to shoot several days with Ben and several other cast members in New York and then we built the interior of a museum in Vancouver. ... This movie is a love letter to museums and museum culture. So they've been really, really open and accessible. Carla [Gugino] plays the docent of the museum who becomes first a friend and then later, possibly more, to Ben".
In the film, Stiller plays a bumbling security guard who accidentally lets loose an ancient curse that brings the museum's exhibits to life. Levy said that the creatures will be created using state-of-the-art visual effects - "there's a lot of CG work," Levy confirmed.
