Director Jon Turteltaub responded in a press interview that the idea was not set in stone as the basis for National Treasure 3, even stating that it could actually be an introduction for National Treasure 4.īoth Director Turteltaub and Benjamin Gates both acknowledged their interest in pursuing the adventures of Benjamin Gates. Indeed when asked about page 47 of the book of secret in National Treasure 2, Benjamin Gates mysteriously answered that it was 'life-altering'! For the trivia: I heard that the 'life-altering' scene was some improvisation from Nicolas Cage.īut damned, such ending should be forbidden! Now we are starving for more answers because of this 'life-altering' issue. The idea of a third movie is also interesting because Benjamin Gates (Nicolas Cage) left us on a cliffhanger issue at the end of the second movie.
Most recently, Reed produced Disney's live-action Mulan.Walt Disney may not have intended to make a movie franchise out of National Treasure, but one may understand the temptation to make National Treasure 3 following the success of the first two films. Reed is no longer directly employed by Disney, but he continues to work with them. To sum it up, Reed said he believes National Treasure is "ripe to reinvent."
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is involved, and Reed said Bruckheimer is working on not only the TV show, but also a new movie.
While the National Treasure series may be dormant right now, Disney is reportedly planning a new National Treasure TV show for Disney Plus. It all worked out in the end, Reed said, point out that attendance to the National Archives shot up by 400% after the film came out, and attendance has stayed in this elevated state ever since. The production team needed to get special approval from the US government for this. "If the company itself had been really excited about moving forward with it and thought that they could blow it out, we would have found a way to make the deals," he said.Īlso in the interview, Reed remarked that it was very special and rare that National Treasure was able to film in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. Reed also suggested that Disney didn't ever get very excited about the prospect of making more National Treasure films in the first place. It makes it look harder to a company like Disney to focus resources on something when they can go make Toy Story or go buy a cruise ship." And I think that makes the numbers look different.
it never really caught on as an independent franchise.
even though there were a lot of consumer products. They never found a way to integrate it into the Parks," Reed said. " really operated in the market as a movie with a sequel, and National Treasure 3 would have been another sequel. Instead, the 2007 sequel Book of Secrets was seen as a sequel, and a third movie would be a sequel to that instead of the next entry in a franchise per se. The National Treasure series never became a franchise, he said. Unfortunately, the company was never able to capitalize on it as a franchise," Reed said. even though the movies themselves were extremely successful, and had a really strong fanbase it's a movie that gets brought up all the time, particularly the first one. He told Collider that, simply put, Disney was never able to make National Treasure a bonafide franchise by incorporating it into its parks or selling a significant amount of merchandise. However, a third film never materialized, and now producer Jason Reed-who worked at Disney at the time but has since left-explained one of the reasons why. Disney's National Treasure movies starring Nicolas Cage were huge hits at the box office, collectively making more than $800 million worldwide across two instalments.