Amy Adams to Costar in Museum 2
February 5, 2008

Remember A Night at the Museum, that family comedy that made a gazillion dollars a couple holiday seasons ago? Well, of course, there's going to be a sequel and Variety announced this week that the luminous Amy Adams, Oscar-nominated star of Enchanted and Charlie Wilson's War, is in negotiations to star opposite Ben Stiller in the 20th Century Fox sequel. A Night at the Museum 2 will pick up right after the end of the first film, as the artifacts from the Museum of Natural History are sent to the Smithsonian in Washington. Variety reports that Adams will play a historical figure who has a crush on Larry, the security guard who will be played by Stiller again. It's unclear which historical figure Amy Adams will play.

Shawn Levy will return to find magic again at the Museum (which made an amazing $574 million worldwide) and the film already has a release date, moving from the holidays into the summer season, slated to open on May 22nd, 2009. Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon (both stars of Reno 911!) wrote the first film and have penned a draft for the second film with Scott Frank (The Lookout) also working on the most recent draft. 21 Laps will produce the film alongside 1492 Pictures. Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe will produce and the film should start shooting in May in Vancouver.

The 33-year-old Amy Adams had bit parts for years, including her debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous in 1999, but she really broke through in recent years with an Oscar nomination for the indie Junebug and starring in the smash hit Enchanted. Amy Adams really started to get attention in 2002 in Catch Me If You Can and went on to appear in The Wedding Date, The Office, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Underdog, Enchanted, and Charlie Wilson's War. Adams recently appeared in the Sundance film Sunshine Cleaning and has finished shooting Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Amy Adams is currently filming Doubt with Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Amy Adams rules.

(Source: Variety.)

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