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In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, National Treasure shaper Jerry Bruckheimer teased that a 3rd movie successful the franchise, starring Nicolas Cage, is inactive successful the works.
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Benjamin Franklin Gates inactive has plentifulness much to uncover.
It's been 15 years since the past National Treasure movie, but successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Jerry Bruckheimer teased that a third film starring Nicolas Cage arsenic treasure hunter protector and cryptographer Gates is precise overmuch successful development.
The mega-producer fto the quality gaffe portion discussing the caller National Treasure spinoff bid National Treasure: Edge of History, which is present streaming connected Disney+.
"We said we'd similar to marque different National Treasure and they said, ‘Sure, let's travel up with a caller cast,'" Bruckheimer said. "At the aforesaid time, we were processing National Treasure for the theaters with Nicolas Cage—which we inactive are. So, that's ongoing."
In 2018, screenwriter Jon Turteltaub told Collider that a publication for a imaginable 3rd film—a follow-up to 2004's National Treasure and its 2007 sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets—was finished, but that wealth was holding everything up.
Thankfully, each signs are pointing to immoderate affirmative advancement being made—just look astatine Edge of History, which features 2 characters from the franchise reprising their roles. In summation to Harvey Keitel returning arsenic erstwhile FBI cause Peter Sadusky, Justin Bartha, who plays Ben Gates' BFF and spouse Riley Poole pops up.
And helium hints that the dynamic duo are inactive collaborating, noting, "Ben and I person been moving connected this ace important happening for the past three, four, 15 years."
As for what that ace important happening mightiness be?
"Let's conscionable say," Riley teases, "there's 47 reasons to beryllium interested."
As National Treasure fans know, that's a nonstop notation to the 2nd film, successful which the President of the United States (Bruce Greenwood) tells Ben astir a mysterious leafage 47 successful the titular Book of Secrets, but its contents are ne'er revealed to the audience.
So, it surely sounds similar a 3rd movie is successful order.
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In the meantime, National Treasure: Edge of History—as good arsenic some National Treasure films—is disposable to watercourse connected Disney+.
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