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Jerry Bruckheimer has achieved all of it. Over the course of his 50-year profession, the mega-producer has despatched the Pirates of the Caribbean to the world’s finish and again, despatched Tom Cruise to Top Gun twice, taught a era Flashdance, and turned Will Smith and Martin Lawrence into Bad Boys for all times. Hell, he’s even helped Nicolas Cage steal a National Treasure!
So it completely is sensible that this icon — who has additionally given tv a bounty of hits like Fire Country, Lucifer, The Amazing Race, and the CSI franchise — would mix the 2 worlds during which he’s discovered a lot success. Recently, he did simply that with each a serialized tackle one among his first hits, American Gigolo, in addition to the Disney+ thrill-ride that’s the just-debuted Treasure spinoff, National Treasure: Edge of History
And whereas there’s nary a sighting of Nicolas Cage (but!), Edge of History is stuffed with the identical sense of popcorn enjoyable and journey of the big-screen tales, solely this time our hero is Lisette Olivera as Jess Valenzuela. This plucky treasure-hunting Dreamer, together with buddies Tasha (Zuri Reed), Oren (Antonio Cipriano), and Ethan (Jordan Rodrigues), is racing to maintain a mysterious relic out of the arms of nasty artifacts vendor performed by Catherine Zeta-Jones. And they’re all a blast to look at.
“It’s always about getting a great cast,” Bruckheimer says, heaping reward on his “young, energetic” ensemble. “They really propel the series to another height.” So might he see any of those actors shifting from the present to the in-the-works National Treasure 3? “Anything is possible…right now, it’s not in the screenplay,” he reveals. “That might change, you never know.”
National Treasure: Edge of History, Wednesdays, Disney+