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Aug 7, 2019 · In the National Treasure films, Cage plays an eccentric, Indiana Jones–like character named Benjamin Gates. The first finds Benjamin working to save the Declaration of Independence—by stealing ...
- The Script Needed Nine Writers to Crack The Code.
- Benjamin Franklin Really Was A Freemason.
- The Crew Used A Brick-For-Brick Replica of Independence Hall.
- That $100 Bill Really Did Have A Precise Time on The Clock.
- It Left Some People Wondering If There Really Is A Secret Map.
- The Director Went to High School with Nicolas Cage.
- Cage Liked Doing Karaoke During Filming.
- The Sequel Boosted Attendance at The National Archives.
- National Treasure 3 Could Still happen.
Originally planned for a summer 2000 release, National Treasure—based on a concept by Disney marketing head Oren Aviv and DreamWorks television executive Charles Segars—had a Byzantine plot that kept it in a prolonged pre-production period. Nine writers were hired between 1999 and 2003 in an attempt to streamline the story, which sees code-breaker ...
Fact and fiction blur considerably in National Treasure, which uses history as a jumping-off point for some major jumps in logic. While it’s not likely the Declaration of Independence has a secret treasure map written on it, Franklin and other Founding Fathers were actually Freemasons. Of the 55 men who signed the document, nine or morebelonged to ...
It can be tricky to secure permission to film on government property, which is why producers of National Treasureprobably considered themselves fortunate when they discovered that Walter Knott of Knott’s Berry Farm fame had built a perfect replica of Independence Hall on his land in Buena Park, California back in the 1960s. The production used it f...
One of Cage’s cryptic clues in the film is reading a time of 2:22 on the clock depicted on the image of Independence Hall on the $100 bill. Bills in circulation at that time really didhave an illustration that pointed to that exact hour and minute, although it was changed to 10:30 for the 2009 redesign. There’s no given reason for why those times w...
Speaking with The Washington Post in 2012, guards and escorts for the National Archives reported that the National Treasurefilms have led visitors to ask questions that could only have been motivated by seeing the series. One common query: whether or not there really is a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. “I call it ‘that’ ...
Both Cage and director Jon Turteltaub attended Beverly Hills High School in the late 1970s and shared a drama class together. While promoting a later film collaboration, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Cagerevealed that Turteltaub had actually beat him out for the lead in a stage production ofOur Town. Cage was relegated to two lines of dialogue in a bi...
On a press tour for the film, Cage toldreporters that he and co-star Diane Kruger bonded by going out at night and singing karaoke. “We’d go and karaoke from time to time and sort of blow it out and be completely ridiculous, which helped, I think,” he said. “I think it was some Rage Against the Machine, AC/DC and some Sex Pistols.”
Popular films often have the residual effect of drawing interest to the real-life locations or subject matter incorporated into their plots. Mackinac Island, site of the 1982 romanceSomewhere in Time, has become a perennial tourist spot. The same influence was true ofNational Treasure and its 2007 sequel, both of which apparently contributed to an ...
It’s been over a decade sinceNational Treasure: Book of Secrets hit theaters, but Cage is still optimistic fans of the series could see another installment. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2016, the actor saida third film was in development, with the convoluted writing process slowing things down. “I do know that those scripts are very difficul...
Aug 1, 2024 · After the success of 2004's National Treasure, which introduces Nicolas Cage's treasure-hunter, Benjamin Gates, a sequel was released in 2007, reuniting the actor with costars Diane Kruger (Abigail Chase) and Justin Bartha (Riley Poole).
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Aug 18, 2023 · The series follows treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) and his friend, Riley (Justin Bartha), as they use historical knowledge and hacking skills to find and solve clues that lead them to...
- Natasha Lavender
Aug 7, 2019 · Nicolas Cage is known to many as the treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates from Disney’s “National Treasure” and “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” but it turns out the Oscar-winning...
- Zack Sharf
Nov 19, 2014 · Ten years ago today, 'National Treasure' hit theaters and Nic Cage took us on a wild ride to find the treasure of the Freemasons.
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Dec 27, 2022 · 'National Treasure: Edge of History' teases the big Page 47 mystery for Nicolas Cage's Ben and Justin Bartha's Riley in an exclusive clip.
