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NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY Drops Trailer, Behind-the-Scenes Footage
By Movieguide® Contributor
Disney+ shared a first look at the upcoming NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY, a series based on the popular NATIONAL TREASURE movies.
The new series follows a girl named Jess, played by Lisette Olivera, as she goes on an adventure to uncover the truth behind her family’s past and to save a lost treasure.
The short trailer and behind-the-scenes featurette show Jess and her friends on the hunt for the treasure, as well as interviews with Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is playing a villain who also wants the treasure, and Justin Bartha, who played Riley Poole in the original NATIONAL TREASURE movies.
Movieguide® previously reported on the show’s development:
Disney recently announced a new original series based in the same universe as the popular NATIONAL TREASURE movies.
According to a Disney+ press release, the series is “centered on a young heroine, Jess (Lisette Alexis), a brilliant and resourceful DREAMer who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about her family’s mysterious past and save a lost Pan-American treasure.”
The show features a familiar face, as well. Jess will go toe-to-toe with a billionaire treasure hunter, played by Academy Award-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
“Billie, [is] a…billionaire, black-market antiquities expert, and treasure hunter who lives by her own code,” Disney shared. “She transformed herself from a penniless orphan to a shrewd, stylish businesswoman and adventurer. Billie’s used to getting what she wants—and she wants the Pan-American treasure. But not just for the money. This treasure has deeper stakes for her.”
The show will also feature Zuri Reed, Jordan Rodrigues, Antonio Cipriano, and Jake Austin Walker as Jess’ friends who help her treasure hunt.
According to our review of the first NATIONAL TREASURE, the movie concentrates on honoring early American history, the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, and ideals such as liberty, traditional family values, bravery, honor, patriotism, loyalty, and justice. All in all, NATIONAL TREASURE provides loads of family-friendly fun. The actors are great, the adventure is exciting, the mystery is intriguing, the suspense is taut, and the humor is full and almost entirely squeaky clean.
Disney would be wise to continue with those positive moral lessons instead of their recent focus on politically correct agendas.
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