Clearly, the movies are wholly structured around Nicolas Cage’s artifact-adoring Ben Gates and how intertwined the family lineage is with U.S. history.
Obviously, Jerry Bruckheimer was keeping things close to the vest as far as details go for National Treasure’s TV future.
But will the TV show use that as a launching pad to introduce another family who is also connected to weird conspiracies and historical mysteries?
His comment about the younger cast does highlight one of the biggest questions surrounding this new project: is it still going to be about the Gates family?