During our interview with Justin Bartha at the UK Premiere of The Hangover last June, we asked him whether National Treasure 3 was on the cards. He told us that it was being written but was in the very early stages and it seems he was spot on.
This weekend at Wondercon, during The Sorcerer’s Apprentice panel, Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed that he had the same team who worked on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro (Miro worked on both) are already working on the script for a third installment of National Treasure. Un fortauntely I didn’t get that quote on video but I got loads more.
It seems that Jon Turteltaub who directed the first two movies will also return as director after his jokes @Wondercon (my footage here – panel video 2:30) but no confirmation yet as to whether Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger and Jon Voight will all be back but it wouldn’t be a National Treasure without them. During the panel for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Jon Turteltaub also makes a joke about whether Teresa Palmer would appear in National Treasure 3 after she forgot to mention him during the ‘who she liked working with’ section (2 minutes in – panel video). Could this be a hint that she is actually already in the movie?
You may wonder why a third movie is on the cards as the second one wasn’t quite as good as the first but earned $347.5 million worldwide, but the sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets actually earned a lot more bringing in $457.4 million worldwide. Seems like a nice little earner for Disney.
More info as we get it.
