
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.īack in 2018, Jon Turteltaub, who directed the “National Treasure” films, told Collider that Disney had a lot of other projects in the works, which is why the third film was put off. 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. It never caught on, even though there were a lot of consumer products, it never caught on as an independent franchise. They never figured out a way to intergrate it into the parks.

It was more of a movie with a sequel and ‘National Treasure 3’ would have been another sequel. 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 capitalize on it as a franchise.
