National Treasure 3, the third film in the adventure series with Nicolas Cage, has received an exciting update.

Per Daniel Richtman, Chris Bremner has been hired to write the screenplay for National Treasure 3. Bremmer is best known for writing Bad Boys for Life and Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Those two movies combined to gross over $800 million worldwide.

Who is involved with Nicolas Cage in National Treasure 3?

National Treasure 3 has been rumored since 2008. The movie was in development hell for over a decade before Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer officially moved forward with the film in 2020.

No director or cast is attached to National Treasure 3. However, Cage would likely return in the starring role as Benjamin Franklin Gates.

In 2004’s National Treasure, the brilliant Ben Gates is a treasure hunter searching for the Freemason fortune, which has been lost for hundreds of years. After finding a pivotal clue, Ben deduces that an invisible map is located on the back of the Declaration of Independence. When Ben’s former teammate Ian Howe (Sean Bean) betrays him, Ben deduces that the only way to protect the document is to steal it for himself.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub, National Treasure stars Cage, Bean, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, and Christopher Plummer. The movie grossed over $347 million worldwide.

Three years later, Disney released the sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets. To clear his ancestor’s name in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Ben sets out to find a diary written by U.S. presidents that contains the nation’s biggest secrets. The movie was an even bigger commercial hit, grossing over $459 million.

15 years later, the franchise pivoted to television with the Disney+ series, National Treasure: Edge of History. The only actors from the movies who appeared as special guest stars were Harvey Keitel and Justin Bartha. The series was canceled after one season.

(Source: Daniel Richtman)