![]() ![]() Riley tells Ben that the Book of Secrets contains documents collected by Presidents for Presidents’ eyes only, covering such controversial subjects as the eighteen minutes erased from Watergate tapes, Area 51, and the assassination of John F. Ben discovers that the second plank is missing, but he does find a stamp bearing the seal of the Book of Secrets. Ben and Abigail coax Abigail’s new love interest, Connor (Ty Burrell), who works at the White House, into letting them into the office to see the desk. She does so, but points out that some of the glyphs are partial, leading Ben to conclude another plank must be hidden in the other Resolute desk located in the Oval Office. Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren) for help in translating the symbols. At Ben’s insistence, Patrick reluctantly asks his ex-wife and Ben’s mother, Dr. Wilkinson eventually obtains the wooden plank, but not before Ben manages to photograph the symbols carved into the plank. Meanwhile, Wilkinson breaks into Patrick Gates’ (Jon Voight) house and clones Patrick’s cell phone in order to track Ben’s whereabouts. From the Queen’s desk, he obtains an ancient wooden plank with ancient symbols carved into it. Ben then heads to England to look at the desk at Buckingham Palace with the help of his friend Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) and estranged girlfriend, Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) (His relationship with Abigail having soured due to him constantly predicting what she might want without even bothering to ask her, even if he is often correct in his assumptions). He travels to Paris, France, where he finds a clue engraved on the torch of the scale model of the Statue of Liberty on the Île des Cygnes, referring to the two Resolute desks. Ben discovers a cipher pointing to Édouard Laboulaye hidden on the back of the diary page. Refusing to allow his ancestor’s name to be tarnished, Ben sets out to prove the innocence of his great-great-grandfather. Black market dealer Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris), a Virginia Military Institute graduate, shows one of the 18 missing pages of John Wilkes Booth’s diary, with Thomas Gates’ name on it, convincing everyone that Thomas was not only a conspirator, but the grand architect of the Lincoln assassination, which tarnishes the Gates family’s reputation and Ben is disgraced. ![]() Over 140 years later, Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) is telling his great-great-grandfather’s story at a Civilian Heroes conference. As Thomas dies, Thomas tells his distraught son, Charles Gates, “The debt that all men pay…” Thomas is shot, and the gunman attempts to retrieve the pages, but only obtains a page fragment. A fight breaks out, and Thomas rips several pages from the diary and throws them in the fireplace. Thomas solves the puzzle, a clue to a map to Cibola, the city of gold, and realizes the men are still loyal to the South and have a sinister motive for finding the treasure. While he does so, Booth leaves for Ford’s Theatre to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Thomas recognizes the message and begins to translate it. This journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations but to the trail of the worlds most treasured secrets.įive days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O’Laughlen, both members of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC), enter a tavern and approach Thomas Gates (Ben Gates’ great-great-grandfather), a well-known puzzle solver, to decode a message written in Booth’s diary. Determined to prove his ancestors innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America. Lets just hope that Ben Gates leaves his family at home on this next adventure, as most agree that aspect was the most annoying part of the second film.When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Bens great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincolns death. Theories exist around the web, but I doubt any of them are accurate. What might be on page 47 that brings them there? Cage has said, whatever it is - it must be "life altering". We've heard in numerous interviews with Cage and director Jon Turteltaub that they wanted the plot to take place in Europe. The screenwriting team has been working on the screenplay for the third film since June 2009. The second movie sort of introduced it and used it as the center of the movie, so it is smart to make the third movie 'okay, what treasure hunt will come out of the book of secrets', which is kind of what the end of the movie started." The idea of the Book of Secrets is spectacular. ![]() Collider talked with screenwriters Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard who said the following: "We were asked to start there, so that is where we'll start. ![]()
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