Catherine Zeta-Jones joins the National Treasure show on Disney+
By Dan Selcke
Disney is readying its next round of original programming for its fledgling streaming service. Let’s start with its upcoming National Treasure show, based on the series of 2000s-era movies where Nicolas Cage stole priceless pieces of Americana. The new series won’t have Cage in it (so far as we know), but will instead revolve around a new character named Jess (Lisette Alexis), a DREAMer who digs into her family’s past and finds that it’s tied up with a mysterious treasure. Go figure.
Now, SyFy Wire reports that Disney is filling out the cast by adding Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones as Billie, a “badass billionaire, black-market antiquities expert, and treasure hunter who lives by her own code.” Like Jess, Billie is on the hunt for a treasure that has personal meaning to her.
Known for roles in movies like The Mask of Zorro and Chicago, Zeta-Jones seems like a good fit for this all-ages adventure. She’s having a bit of a comeback recently; she’ll also play Morticia Addams in a Netflix series about the Addams Family.
Disney+ is making a new Goosebumps show
Speaking of upcoming Disney+ series, ’90s kids may be pleased to know that the streamer is adapting R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps, a series of young adult horror books. According to The A.V. Club, the show will revolve around a bunch of high schoolers unleashing supernatural horrors on their town and learning some of secret things their parents did back when they were teenagers.
So it sounds like the new show will be more serialized rather than adapting each of Stine’s books as discreet standalone episodes, as happened on the ’90s-era Goosebumps show. In any case, between this and the recent slate of Fear Street movies on Netflix, there’s a lot of R.L. Stine content to go around right now.
Neither the National Treasure show nor the Goosebumps show have release dates as of yet.
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