Overview
- Director Jon Turteltaub told a live audience at the National Treasure Hunt podcast Friday night in Philadelphia that a third film is “happening.”
- Turteltaub said there is a script he likes and that Disney has indicated the screenplay “sounds like a movie we can make,” while studio and Cage representatives did not immediately comment.
- Nicolas Cage is expected to reprise Ben Gates and the filmmakers say they will try to bring back original cast members “to whatever extent we can.”
- No production schedule, formal casting announcements, or plot specifics have been released and Turteltaub cautioned the project remains subject to change.
- The move revives a franchise that last had a theatrical sequel in 2007 and a short-lived 2022 Disney+ spinoff, and it raises questions about how the new film will balance nostalgia with the director’s stated concern about handling current political sensitivities.