NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS from 11th January to a theatre near
you....!!!!
Synopsis -
Walt Disney Pictures' and Jerry Bruckheimer Films' action-packed
"National Treasure: Book of Secrets" reunites the stars of the
blockbuster 2004 film (which amassed a worldwide box office total of
$347,451,894)--NICOLAS CAGE, JON VOIGHT, HARVEY KEITEL, DIANE KRUGER
and JUSTIN BARTHA--along with producer JERRY BRUCKHEIMER and director
JON TURTELTAUB. For this second "National Treasure" adventure, the
story expands into a global adventure and introduces new cast members
ED HARRIS and HELEN MIRREN.
For Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), history isn't just a dry record of
what's occurred in a distant and half-forgotten past…for him, history
is alive, vital, and occasionally it offers the possibility of finding
extraordinary treasures. After his astonishing discovery of the
riches of the Templar Knights, Ben has become the world's most famous
treasure hunter…although he prefers the term "treasure protector". In
"National Treasure: Book of Secrets", Ben and his father, university
professor Patrick Gates (Jon Voight), are shaken by the discovery of
one of the long-lost pages from the diary of Lincoln assassin John
Wilkes Booth. The diary was found on Booth's body when he was
killed; however, several pages had been torn from the diary and have
never been found… until now. Surprisingly, the information on this
page seems to implicate their ancestor, Thomas Gates, as a
co-conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln.
Ben must work with his now ex-girlfriend, American history archivist
Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) and his tech-wiz partner Riley Poole
(Justin Bartha) in a globe-trotting adventure which dangerously
criss-crosses the inner sanctums of Washington, D.C., Paris, London
and the American heartland.
As Ben, Patrick, Abigail and Riley meticulously unravel clues which
threaten to turn history, and their lives, completely upside-down,
their search for historical truth widens into a hunt for perhaps the
most mysterious and highly guarded book on earth, and from that, to a
famed mythological treasure. Much to Patrick's consternation, Ben
calls upon a secret weapon--his formidable mother and Patrick's
ex-wife, linguistics professor Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren)--who
hasn't spoken to Patrick in 32 years. She is soon caught up in the
intrigue, but the team is not alone in its pursuit. The man who
brought the lost page to Ben's attention, Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris),
has his own family history to uncover. But his ambitions are less
noble than merely discovering treasure, putting him on a deadly
collision course with the others in a desperate effort to uncover the
secrets that lie beneath the half-burnt diary page from America's
past.
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