Apparently a National Treasure 3 is currently in the works which is long overdue as it was halted years ago because, according to former executive producer Jason Reed, the company was never able to capitalise on it as a franchise.
He told Collider: "I tried my damnedest to get National Treasure 3 up. I love those movies. I worked on those from inception. What I felt happened is even though the movies were extremely successful and had a really strong fanbase, it’s a movie that gets brought up all the time, the company was never able to capitalise on it as a franchise.
"It was more of a movie with a sequel and National Treasure 3 would have been another sequel."
Reed also added that Disney were unable to find a way to generate fresh merchandise and theme park attractions out of National Treasure.
He explained: “They never figured out a way to intergrade it into the parks. It never caught on, even though there were a lot of consumer products, it never caught on as an independent franchise.
"That makes the numbers look different. It makes it harder to make a company like Disney focus resources on something when they can go make Toy Story or buy a cruise ship. And if the company itself had been really excited about moving forward with it and thought they could blow it out, we would have found a way to make the deal."
The first two films in the action-adventure series, which starred Nicholas Cage, Justin Bartha and Diane Kruger, were a major success at the box office, bringing in almost half a billion worldwide.
The third instalment is now reportedly in the works, along with a Disney+ spin-off series.
