Mira Nair to helm ‘National Treasure’ collection for Disney Plus 

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair is about to direct a collection based mostly on Nicolas Cage-starrer “National Treasure” movies.

The rebooted collection, which comes from the movies’ producer Jerry Bruckheimer and unique writers Marianne and Cormac Wibberley, has been formally ordered at streamer Disney Plus, reported Deadline.

The new present explores the well timed problems with id, neighborhood, historic authorship and patriotism.

It will likely be informed from the standpoint of Jess Morales, a twenty-year-old DREAMer who, along with her various group of mates, units off on the journey of a lifetime to uncover her mysterious household historical past and get better misplaced treasure.

Jess Morales is taking the torch from Benjamin Gates, the character that Cage performed within the unique 2004 film and its 2007 sequel “National Treasure: Book of Secrets”.

The Wibberleys function govt producers with Jerry Bruckheimer Television, with ABC Signature because the studio.

The growth of the brand new collection has been on parallel tracks with the lengthy gestating threequel within the franchise, which introduced in Chris Bremner as author in January 2020.

Nair, identified for motion pictures equivalent to “The Namesake”, “Monsoon Wedding” and “Queen of Katwe”, most just lately directed the BBC collection “A Suitable Boy”.