Shawn Levy
"We’ll explore complexity and challenging character journeys, but it’s never going to be nihilistic," says Shawn Levy, photographed June 23 in his office on the 21st Century Fox lot in Los Angeles.
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Shawn Levy
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Christopher Patey On Netflix's Stranger Things: "It is to a large extent in my sweet spot in that it’s very Spielberg-ian, Amblin-y, but it’s also way creepier, way more genre."
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‘Night at the Museum’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Christopher Patey The original gold Tablet of Ahkmenrah from 2006’s Night at the Museum film, which earned $574.5 million worldwide and launched the franchise.
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‘Date Night’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Christopher Patey The 2010 comedy Date Night, which Levy directed, was one of the first films produced by 21 Laps and was based on an idea of Levy’s while he was on a date with his wife. Stars Steve Carell (left) and Tina Fey pulled Levy in for a photograph during a promotional shoot.
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‘Stranger Things’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Christopher Patey Levy expects that many viewers will binge-watch the Netflix series. “It’s deeply addictive,” he says. “I would read a script, give notes on the script and be waiting for my inbox to deliver me the next script.”
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Elliott Erwitt Photograph
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Christopher Patey Levy bought two copies of this Elliott Erwitt photograph of the actual janitor at the American Museum of Natural History, one for his office and one for Stiller.
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‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb’ Compositions
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Christopher Patey Alan Silvestri sent Levy a framed collection of the five different compositions he arranged for Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. Says Levy, “I made him rewrite the goodbye scene five times until we found the one that made me cry.”