Overview
- Jon Turteltaub said during a live podcast recording in Philadelphia on Friday that he “finally” has a script he likes and that Disney told him it “sounds like a movie we can make.”
- Turteltaub reported that Nicolas Cage is expected to reprise Benjamin Franklin Gates, a development that sources described as an attachment rather than a formal studio announcement.
- There is no official Disney press release yet and the production still lacks confirmed start dates, a full cast list, or a shooting schedule, so normal Hollywood setbacks could still derail the project.
- The update follows years of stop-start work on a sequel and a 2022 Disney+ spinoff that failed to reignite the franchise without Cage, and earlier reports from 2020 and 2022 that a script had been in development.
- If it proceeds, the film could address unresolved plot threads from Book of Secrets such as the so-called “Page 47,” but the next concrete steps are formal studio confirmation and scheduling of production.