Mar 27 2008'National Treasure' To Fulfill Its Trilogy Destiny
Like cancer cells or the Osmond clan, National Treasure is one of those magical life-forms with the inherent ability for terribly unwanted yet inexorable reproduction. Or at least so says director Jon Turteltaub, who has laid out plans for a third chapter of the impossibly successful National Treasure franchise, claiming that the series "begets sequels because it's the kind of genre MEANT to beget sequels." I'm sure it has nothing to do with the last National Treasure begetting $442 million, or Cage's unsatiable hunger for newer, fuller, more expensive hair.
But at least we needn't worry that the next installment will be rushed out without consideration of the high National Treasure standard of quality. Turteltaub gives us a glimpse as to why we'll have to wait until 2011 for another sequel:
By the time we come up with a decent idea and develop it into a complicated and intelligent puzzle it's going to be at least 2009. Then to prep it and cast it... it should be three years away.
By my calculations, that's about five months to finalize the "Nicolas Cage goes back in time to save Lincoln, collect treasure" storyline, and another four to sort it out with intelligent details like "he uses Ben Franklin's time machine he finds under a monument or something."
National Treasure 3 in 2011 [Cinema Blend]
Reader Comments
1. nikk - March 27, 2008 5:27 PM
Lame. Also first?
2. Polly Pureheart - March 27, 2008 7:18 PM
Say what you want about Nic Cage but I end up watching his damn flicks every time I catch one on tv. Every goddam time. Even "Gone in 60 Seconds"
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3. DO - March 28, 2008 12:24 AM
But it's a National Pleasure
4. david - March 28, 2008 9:04 AM
the most talked about theme for national treasure three is he searches for atlantis.
5. Kingsley Amis - March 28, 2008 11:58 AM
Page 47 from the Presidents' Book of Secret. There's your plot. Duh!
6. Bobeyo - March 28, 2008 1:33 PM
The reason I stopped caring about National Treasure is that I rapidly discovered that American treasures are boring. I mean, what's so damn important about the Constitution, compared to things like the Ark of the Covenant? They even had to fill the treasure room in the fist movie with INTERnational treasures because America doesn't have anything old enough or interesting enough. The next one will probably be about Ben Franklin's eyeglasses or something. *snore*