Justin Bartha, who played Riley Poole in the two “National Treasure” films, will reprise his role for the upcoming TV series based on the franchise for the Disney+ service.
The series stars Lisette Alexis as Jess, a brilliant and resourceful Dreamer who begins the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about her family’s mysterious past and recover a lost Pan-American treasure.
The series is dubbed an ‘expansion’ of the movie franchise with this marking the first real definitive connection between the two films in 2004 and 2007 and the upcoming show.
Bartha is only guest-starring at this point and joins a cast that includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zuri Reed, Jordan Rodrigues, Antonio Cipriano, Jake Austin Walker and Lyndon Smith.
Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, who wrote the scripts for the films, are executive producing alongside Jerry Bruckheimer, Jon Turteltaub, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Rick Muirragui and director Mira Nair.
Source: THR
