Van Dyke, Rooney Punch Clock for NIGHT

By: News Editor
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Source: Reuters

Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney have signed to act in NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM. The cast is lead by star Ben Stiller.

The comic actors, along with Bill Cobbs, will play security guards at the Museum of Natural History on the same detail as Stiller's night watchman. Stiller's character discovers a magical pharaoh's tablet, but Van Dyke, playing the head of security who has worked at the museum for nearly 50 years, wants the tablet so that he can stay young. Rooney is his colleague who, with Cobbs, helps Van Dyke's character with his nefarious schemes.

The live-action/computer-animated comedy is being directed by Shawn Levy.