EXCLUSIVE: After turning Evening on the Museum into probably the most profitable household movie franchises of the twenty first century, 21 Laps has enlisted Tripper Clancy to jot down a reimagining for 20th Century Studios, sources inform Deadline.

Whereas specifics as to the plot are beneath wraps, the movie is claimed to be a brand new story set on the museum with all-new characters. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps, with Emily Morris overseeing the mission for the corporate.

A frequent collaborator of 21 Laps, Clancy is at the moment working with the corporate on an adaptation of the basic Roald Dahl story Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit for Netflix, the place he’ll function co-executive producer. He’s additionally labored with Netflix and 21 Laps as co-EP of the collection I Am Not Okay With This, in addition to in creating Bolivar, a hybrid TV collection primarily based on the beloved youngsters’s ebook with Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon.

Originating again when 20th Century Studios was 20th Century Fox, the Evening on the Museum franchise adapts the 1993 youngsters’s ebook by Milan Trenc, the place an evening watchman at a pure historical past museum sees his job descend into chaos when reveals come to life after darkish. 21 Laps’ Levy directed and Ben Stiller led three movies, every of which was a success on the international field workplace: 2006’s Evening on the Museum (~$574M WW), 2009’s Evening on the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (~$413M WW), and 2014’s Evening on the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (~$363M WW). Levy additionally produced every installment. Supporting solid over the course of the trilogy included Robin Williams, Owen Wilson,  Steve Coogan, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Dan Stevens, and Insurgent Wilson.

Following Disney’s acquisition of Fox in 2019, the studio moved to additional broaden the franchise with Evening on the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Once more, an animated characteristic produced by Levy for Disney+, which premiered in 2022.

A WGA Award winner, Clancy is finest recognized for writing every installment within the Die Hart franchise, starring Kevin Hart, for Roku and Amazon. To date, he’s additionally co-created a Varsity Blues reboot for Quibi, developed the novel The Artwork of Fielding with Mike Tollin as a miniseries for Netflix, written for Pixar, and penned the buddy motion comedy Stuber on spec, promoting it to Fox with Goldstein & Daley producing in addition to Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista starring. He’s represented by Verve, Kaplan/Perrone, and Gregg Gellman at Morris Yorn.

Coming off a record-breaking 2024 with Deadpool & Wolverine, which turned the highest-grossing R-rated film in historical past with a worldwide gross exceeding $1.3 billion, 21 Laps’ upcoming slate contains the fifth and closing season of Netflix’s Stranger Issues, which premieres later this yr. Most lately, the corporate has introduced characteristic diversifications of Grady Hendrix’s brief story “The Blanks” and Freida McFadden’s psychological thriller By no means Lie for Netflix, in addition to a Madonna restricted collection for a similar streamer, the place 21 Laps has a long-term deal. They named Robert Atwood Head of Tv in April. As a director, Levy’s subsequent mission is Star Wars: Starfighter, starring Ryan Gosling, which he’s additionally producing. Pic goes into manufacturing this fall and might be launched theatrically on Might 28, 2027.

Levy and his 21 Laps are repped by WME, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, and Ziffren Brittenham.