Jon Turteltaub explains the blatant absence of a third national treasure

Every genre franchise in Hollywood needs at least a third film to comfortably wrap things up in a beautiful trilogy arc. Think About It: Star Wars (x3), The Lord of the Rings Back to the Future and even Toy Story for cryin & # 39; loudly. So where is National Treasure 3 ?!

The two Nicolas Cage vehicles produced by Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer were a perfect blend of Indiana Jones' sensibility and American history of high school AP (albeit sometimes from the beginning. an apocryphal genre), but they were damn fun. Exploring the United States through secret societies and long-hidden treasures has proven to be a fascinating base for cultivating a film series, so why did it stop only two? ?

While speaking to Collider Jon Turtletaub, director of National Treasure (who was currently promoting The Meg ), explained the reason for the absence Blatant of a third opus, where Nic Cage steals an invaluable American artifact of FBI mercenaries and escape, led by Harvey Keitel.

"When National Treasure was created, there was a lot more money to be made – everyone was well paid" , he said, "the problem of doing the third is not the people who are paid saying" I do not do it unless you pay me a lot! "to have others movies that they want to do that they think they will make them more money. "

Not that Turtletaub agrees with that. "I think they're wrong, I think they're right about the movies they're doing, obviously they're doing a really good job of making good movies." I just think that it would be one of them, and they do not realize how much the Internet is begging for a third National Treasure "said the director.

The Worst It's All A scenario was in preparation, but Disney did not encourage it enough, Turtletaub added, a real shame when you think about it, because Book of Secrets has perfectly put together a sequel with anything.At this point, it's not too late to bring back Cage, Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger and Justin Bartha for a last American Hurray.

Leave the epic theme of Trevor Rabin the first two films give us hope.