National Treasure : Book of Secrets (News Blip)
Just when you thought the upcoming “National Treasure 2″ was just a popcorn flick comes news that it’s packed with Oscar-winning actors going historical. “Helen Mirren plays my wife and Ed Harris is the bad guy,” says actor Jon Voight, who plays Nic Cage’s pop in the sequel due out this year. Wait, Mirren has gone from Queen Elizabeth to “National Treasure”? “She came aboard after a year when she won the Oscar and the Emmy,” Voight marvels. “She came to our set so normal, no frills. It was pretty amazing.” As for plot secrets, he reveals a few spoilers, so stop reading now if you don’t want to know. “It’s about how right before Lincoln was shot, there were … people backing John Wilkes Booth. The great-grandfather of our family is in the picture and there is evidence he was part of this group. Nic Cage and I decide our legacy will not be tarnished and we seek the truth.”
One wonders if Voight and Mirren have any romantic moments. “She’s my ex and she hates me — at first,” he says. “I make my son, played by Nic, go talk to her. But let’s just say he doesn’t get all the ladies in the film. There might just be a kiss.”