Jon Turteltaub Says "National Treasure 3" Is Going Ahead With Full Cast

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Great, great news for fans of Nicolas Cage's 'National Treasure' franchise, as director Jon Turteltaub told a crowd at the Philadelphia Visitor Center that the third film is officially on the fast track with the full cast coming back.

“I have not said anything before this, but you deserve to have the scoop. It’s finally real. Now, it’s Hollywood real, meaning things could happen. Nick gets hit by a bus, there’s no National Treasure 3. If I get hit by a bus, there’s probably a National Treasure 3. Welcome to Hollywood."

If you remember in the second film, the President played by Bruce Greenwood told Nicolas Cage's Benjamin Gates about a secret page in the American Presidents' Book of Secrets that he requested Cage's help with. With current politics in the country very toxic, Turtletaub has to tread lightly, weaving politics in: "We have to be very careful, but I don’t feel we are allowed to ignore it. I think we have to include that idea in the story somehow without making someone feel put off."

While that book page should be the main treasure hunt in the film, another question remains, and that's if the TV series spinoff 'Edge of History' is canon and if the characters will appear. Justin Bartha, who played Gates' partner Riley Poole, actually appeared in the show and was shown being even richer and a lot more famous with his own private jet.

I loved the first two movies, and I can't believe it's been almost twenty years since the last film came out. Cage definitely deserves to be in big-budget cinema films and to get away from straight-to-streaming films he's been doing way too long.

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