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“Night at the Museum” helmer Shawn Levy has been secretly developing a sequel to his 2011 film “Real Steel”.
The filmmaker tells Coming Soon that a follow-up to the Hugh Jackman starrer has been in the works since the release of the first.
“We have been quietly developing a sequel to ‘Real Steel’ for three and a half years,” Levy revealed. “We’ve come up with some great scripts but Hugh and I would only make it if the plot feels fresh, but also the character journeys feel fresh, and we’ve found both but never at the same time. It’s ongoing. I know the clock is ticking. That movie, weirdly, for a movie that did very well globally–it did okay domestically–but the love for ‘Real Steel’ remains kind of unique as far as rabid fans who ask me all the time for another one. Hugh and I love that movie so if we can crack it, we’ll make it, but I have this sense that we better make that happen soon or frankly, the audience may not be there in the same way. So we shall see.”
Levy, whose next film is Christmas comedy “Night at the Museum : Secret of the Tomb”, is also working on a feature version of PBS’s “Sesame Street”.
“I watched it when I was 3. My kids now watch it now that they’re three. We actually have a very good script now by Mike Jones, who has written a bunch of movies, one for Pixar and a bunch that are now in the process of moving towards production. It’s really good. We’re doing a polish on it and we turn it into Fox and Sesame and hopefully it’s something we shoot next year.”
