National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

“National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets”

Action, Adventure, Mystery |

National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a American action-adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is a sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure and is the second film of the National Treasure film series. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Bruce Greenwood, and Helen Mirren.

The film premiered in New York City on December 13, 2007, and was released in North America by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on December 21, 2007. Like its predecessor, the film received mixed reviews but was a box office success, grossing over $459 million worldwide. A third film is currently in development.

On April 14, 1865, five days after the end of the American Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O’Laughlen enter a tavern in Washington, D.C., and approach Thomas Gates to decode a message in Booth’s diary. Thomas recognizes the message as using the Playfair cipher and begins to translate it. While he does so, Booth leaves for Ford’s Theatre to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln. Thomas solves the puzzle and realizes the men are members of the Knights of the Golden Circle and are Confederate sympathizers. A fight breaks out, and Thomas rips several pages from the diary and throws them in the fireplace. Thomas is shot, and the gunman retrieves only a page fragment.

Approximately 142 years later, Thomas’s great-great-grandson Ben Gates delivers a lecture on the story at a Civilian Heroes conference. A black market antiquities dealer, Mitch Wilkinson, shows one of the 18 missing pages of John Wilkes Booth’s diary, with Thomas Gates’s name written on it, convincing everyone that Thomas was not only a conspirator but also the grand architect of the Lincoln assassination.

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Writers: Marianne Wibberley (screenplay), Cormac Wibberley (screenplay & story), Gregory Poirier (story), Ted Elliott (story), Terry Rossio (story), Jim Kouf (characters), Oren Aviv (characters), Charles Segars (characters)

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Bruce Greenwood, Helen Mirren

Cast:

Nicolas Cage	…	Ben Gates
Justin Bartha	…	Riley Poole
Diane Kruger	…	Abigail Chase
Jon Voight	…	Patrick Gates
Helen Mirren	…	Emily Appleton
Ed Harris	…	Mitch Wilkinson
Harvey Keitel	…	Sadusky
Bruce Greenwood	…	The President
Ty Burrell	…	Connor
Michael Maize	…	Daniel
Timothy V. Murphy	…	Seth (as Timothy Murphy)
Alicia Coppola	…	FBI Agent Spellman
Armando Riesco	…	FBI Agent Hendricks
Albert Hall	…	Dr. Nichols
Joel Gretsch	…	Thomas Gates
Christian Camargo	…	John Wilkes Booth
Brent Briscoe	…	Michael O’Laughlen
William Brent	…	Charles Gates (as Billy Unger)
Michael Manuel	…	Agent Craig
Brad Rowe	…	Agent Hopper
Zachary Gordon	…	Lincoln Conspiracy Kid
Peter Woodward	…	Palace Guard Haggis
Oliver Muirhead	…	Control Room Guard
Larry Cedar	…	Control Room Guard
Troy Winbush	…	Agent Hammer
Billy Devlin	…	Agent Sledge
William R. Johnson	…	Agent Stander
Richard Cutting	…	Agent Tyme
Alicia Leigh Willis	…	Lady Customer
Rachel Cora Wood	…	Girl Customer (as Rachel Wood)
Lisa Marie Sheldon	…	Jacqueline (as Lisa Sheldon)
Natalie Dreyfuss	…	Angry College Girl
Michael Stone Forrest	…	Press Secretary
David E. Goodman	…	Deputy Press Secretary (as David Copeland Goodman)
Susan Lynskey	…	Asst. Press Secretary
Patricia DiZebba	…	Press Secretary’s Secretary (as Patrizia DiZebba)
Grant Thompson	…	Boat Patrolman
Frank Herzog	…	Frank
Maryellen Aviano	…	Senator’s Wife (as Mary Ellen Aviano)
Jon Abel	…	Senator
Eric Carlson	…	Air Force General (as Eric W. Carlson)
Randy Travis	…	Celebrity Music Star
Mary Firestone	…	FBI Agent Doer
Robert C. Koch	…	FBI Agent Stayres
Emerson Brooks	…	FBI Agent Steppes
Tim Talman	…	FBI Agent Cade
Stephen Hibbert	…	Tourist on Toilet (as Steve Hibbert)
Jonathan Emmett	…	Palace Guard Sholder
Emily Joyce	…	Palace Guide
Glenn Beck	…	Abraham Lincoln
Judy Renihan	…	Mary Todd Lincoln
Susan Beresford	…	Mrs. Mountchessington
Demetri Goritsas	…	Asa Trenchard
Charity Reindorp	…	Augusta
C.C. Smiff	…	Major Rathbone
David Ury	…	Barkeep
Peter Miles	…	Beer Truck Driver (as Milsey Peter Miles)
Ben Homewood	…	Taxi Passenger
Michael McCafferty	…	Snooty Historian (as Mike McCafferty)
Russ Widdall	…	Treasure Fanatic
Hans Georg Struhar	…	Range Rover Owner (as Hans G. Struhar)
Poetri	…	Mover
John Travis	…	Helicopter Pilot Mike
Gabriel Valentino	…	Whitehouse Representative / UMD student (archive footage)
Don Abernathy	…	Photographer (uncredited)
Giancarlo Abriola	…	Miner (uncredited)
Mike Altieri	…	FBI Agent (uncredited)
Mike D. Anderson	…	Businessman (uncredited)
Debbie Attwell	…	Theatregoer (uncredited)
George Balulis	…	DC Metro Police Officer (uncredited)
Mark Barth	…	Mt. Rushmore Tourist (uncredited)
Nora Bauer	…	Conference Attendee (uncredited)
Blayne Bennett	…	Tourist (uncredited)
Tatjana Bluchel	…	White House Photographer (uncredited)
Chloe Brown	…	Child (uncredited)
Ken Bulcroft	…	Politician (uncredited)
Douglas Bunn	…	City Police (uncredited)
Terah Belle Burnett	…	Easter Egg Hunt Girl (uncredited)
Hélène Cardona	…	Tourist (voice) (uncredited)
Kadrolsha Ona Carole	…	Presidential Party Guest (uncredited)
Sharon Carpenter-Rose	…	Presidential Party Guest (uncredited)
Juan Eloy Carrera	…	Businessman (uncredited)
Larry Carter	…	Secret Service Agent (uncredited)
Natalie Christina	…	Senator’s Wife (uncredited)
Jason Collins	…	FBI Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Tim Colmus	…	Senator (uncredited)
Desiree Cooper	…	Easter Egg Hunt Girl (uncredited)
Taaryn Cooper	…	Easter Egg Hunt Boy (uncredited)
Aaron Cornelison	…	1865 Boy Outside Tavern (uncredited)
Scot Cregan	…	White House Press Secretary (uncredited)
Bruce Allen Dawson	…	Presidential Party Guest (uncredited)
Scali Delpeyrat	…	Police Officer on Bicycle #2 (uncredited)
Michael F. Dixon Sr.	…	Bar Patron (uncredited)
Kaylee Dodson	…	Kid (uncredited)
Matthew Dunn	…	(uncredited)
Rodger D. Eldridge	…	Presidential Party Guest (uncredited)
Clive Elkington	…	Tourist (uncredited)
Paul Fahrenkopf	…	Party Guest / Lecture Attendee (uncredited)
Sommer Fehmel	…	Driver (uncredited)
Liam Ferguson	…	Guest (uncredited)

Sources: imdb & wikipedia