Benjamin Franklin Gates

So learning that history became an outlet for me.

And it sort of brought out my theater like Ben Gates because National Treasure was my favorite movie growing up.

And the biggest takeaway from that movie growing up, and I remember watching it with my grandpa and my dad was...

Finding the stories that you have in your own family, I think, is very, very worthwhile because it connects with your past, but it could also uncover something

Abigail.

Well, the style of the episode was like our Ben Gates character analysis where we're pitching adjectives back and forth and kind of explaining scenes that support what we think of these characters.

But to your point, I do think that in retrospect, comparing Hunt for Abigail with Hunt for Abigail 2.0, which is our episode on Abigail's office at the archives, really does go to illuminate and highlight how little we knew about Abigail as a character based solely on what we are told about her in the movies.

Because just from examining her surroundings in the context of a production team that cares very much about their set decor... um we learned so much more about her than we ever did and that we could ever talk about back in episode 25

I don't know.

I look at Nicholas Cage, Benjamin Gates.

It's not...

Mission Impossible guy, but somehow him and...

Nick Cage is coming back.

Ben Gates, he's coming back.

He's going to steal the Declaration of Independence or something else.

Have some kind of great tagline.

And I'm telling you right now, if the storyline involves...

Uh-oh, something happened to Ben Gates and Abigail, and he has to fight through the movie to win her back.

I'm gonna fucking flip a table.

So, Bruckheimer? Hear me now.

And in The National Treasure...

Benjamin Franklin Gates has been inherited these stories from his grandfather that, I believe it was his grandfather, about the treasure of the Templar Knights and how to find it.

And he spends his life going after this treasure and kind of made a destruction of his life.

Do I need to step back? Am I too far forward? made a ruin of his life, but his grandson is like, he's continuing that quest.

I really hope I'm saying that right, says National Treasure 3 is officially moving forward after nearly two decades of false starts.

A script is in development, and Turtle Bub says that the goal is to bring back as much of the original cast as possible, including Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Gates.

Oh my God.

So I'm super excited about this, but it's almost a note.

Your thoughts, is this a possibility? Are we seeing a, a, a Nic Cage-ance, a Cage-ance after Spider Noir? Do you think a National Treasure 3 is coming?

I mean, I, I, I like Nic Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates.

I think this is one of his, uh, n- probably not the biggest acting challenge-

Agreed

And people on the right and people on the left are both so desperate to get it that people are dying.

Cue Benjamin Franklin G- what's his name?

Benjamin Franklin Gates.

Benjamin Gates.