NATIONAL TREASURE (2)

National Treasure [2004] 

"The greatest adventure history has ever revealed."

Director: Jon Turteltaub  

Writers: Jim Kouf (screenplay), Cormac Wibberley (screenplay)
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger and Justin Bartha

Storyline

Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets [2007]

 

 

Director: Jon Turteltaub  

Writers:  Marianne Wibberley (screenplay), Cormac Wibberley (screenplay)
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger and Justin Bartha

Storyline

While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that Ben's great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase, and Riley Poole to Buckingham Palace (which they break into). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh) meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest the have to go to Ben's mother, Patrick's divorced wife. After 32 years it brings back old arguments. After that the other clue is in the President's...