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National Treasure: Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean. A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.
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- Action, Adventure, Mystery
- Jon Turteltaub
- 2004-11-19
- THE SCRIPT NEEDED NINE WRITERS TO CRACK THE CODE. 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.
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN REALLY WAS A FREEMASON. Fact and fiction blur considerably in National Treasure, which uses history as a jumping-off point for some major jumps in logic.
- THE CREW USED A BRICK-FOR-BRICK REPLICA OF INDEPENDENCE HALL. It can be tricky to secure permission to film on government property, which is why producers of National Treasure probably 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.
- THAT $100 BILL REALLY DID HAVE A PRECISE TIME ON THE CLOCK. 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.
- Were the Knights Templar real people? Yes, the Knights Templar were very much real people. During the middle-ages, the group amassed a huge amount of wealth and power, which is ultimately what led to their eventual downfall at the hands of the Catholic Church.
- Are the Freemasons real people as well? The Freemasons are very much real. In fact, they are one of the longest running "secret" societies left in the world.
- Did the Freemasons evolve out of the Knights Templar? There are rumors that the Masons were a product of the destruction of the Templars, but there is no proof to back that up.
- Is there really a Templar treasure hidden somewhere? Obviously, one has never been found, but based on the amount of power the Templar Knights had, it is safe to assume they were sitting on a load of valuables.
- Mike Mcgranaghan
- Photo: William James Hubard / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. 2,106 VOTES. Charles Carroll Was The Last Surviving Man Who Signed The Declaration Of Independence.
- Photo: Buena Vista Pictures. 2,360 VOTES. The Declaration Is Lowered Into An Atomic Bomb-Proof Vault When It's Not On Display. During the hours when the public isn't around to see it, the Declaration - together with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights - is lowered into an armored vault underground, per Atlas Obscura.
- Photo: David Martin / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. 2,423 VOTES. Benjamin Franklin Did Write 14 Letters As Silence Dogood. With the FBI hot on his trail, Ben goes to the home of his father to take a closer look at the back of the Declaration.
- Photo: Attributed to Rembrandt Peale / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. 2,498 VOTES. Timothy Matlack Did Help Scribe The Declaration Of Independence. Timothy Matlack was a brewer from Pennsylvania.
It is the first film in the National Treasure franchise and stars Nicolas Cage in the lead role, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Justin Bartha and Christopher Plummer.
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a ...
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The National Treasure franchise consists of American historical fiction action-adventures, including two released theatrical films, a prequel book series, and a television series set 20 years after the films. Future installments, notably a third film, have been under consideration for many years.
