International Treasure From Persia...

Was there really any doubt that this was going to happen...

Really? One of the last things Dick Cook did before he got tossed out on his tookus, was announce plans for a third "National Treasure" film. Now comes news of who will be writing the sequel. Jerry Bruckheimer has hired screenwriters Carlos Bernard and Doug Miro to script the latest adventures of Nick Cage's historian adventurer. If you don't know, these guys are the ones that wrote the adaptation of "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" for The Bruck and The Mouse. They seem to be the new go-to guys in Burbank. We'll get a chance to see their work later this year with Prince and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," which they also wound up adapting for Disney. Are they worth of the sequel? Will it be an equal?

Time will tell...

Apprentice Magically Appears...

The teaser trailer for Walt Disney Pictures "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" has gone online...

Interesting. It ain't the short from "Fantasia" of course, but I really wouldn't want it to be. I'll be interested in seeing more come about about this as its release approaches. Also, the official website has gone live as well, so see it here. Seeing Nick Cage in motion in the trailer doesn't look nearly as bad as those photos that we saw earlier in the year(the ones from Matrix 4). He ain't no Yen Sid.

But I really wouldn't want him to be...

Sorcerous Casting...

Peter Sciretta of /film is reporting that Alfred Molina will be cast as an evil sorcerer opposite Nick Cage(Sorcerer) and Jay Baruchel(Apprentice) in Walt Disney Pictures "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." One of Disney's favorite Cast Members, Jon Turteltaub is directing the modern day take on the classic animated sequence in "Fantasia" that Disney fans have loved so much. Will it prove magical?

Time will tell...

Mickey's Replacement...

It appears that Jay Baruchel("Tropic Thunder," "Knocked Up") is up for the part of the title role in Walt Disney Pictures live action "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" according to Variety.

The production will work from a screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal that Matt Lopez did a rewrite on. The film takes place in modern day New York(don't all movies?), where Nicholas Cage will play a wizard in search of a new apprentice. Frequent Mouse collaborator Jon Turteltaub will direct Jerry Bruckheimer's production.

Developing...