Per Collider, Disney has announced that Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to join the cast for the upcoming National Treasure Disney+ TV series.
Zeta-Jones, whose credits include 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve, 2002’s Chicago, and 1998’s The Mask of Zorro, will play Billie, “a badass billionaire, black-market antiquities expert, and treasure hunter who follows her own code.” She is set to star alongside lead actor Lisette Alexis, Lyndon Smith (Parenthood), Zuri Reed (Flatbush Misdemeanors), Jake Austin Walker (12 Mighty Orphans), Antonio Cipriano (Jagged Little Pill) and Jordan Rodrigues (Light as a Feather).
The new 10-episode series will serve as an expansion of the franchise rather than a reboot and will follow Jess, a young DREAMer, played by Alexis, as she searches for answers about her family, embarking on a brand new adventure to save a lost Pan-American treasure. Jess is described as brilliant, resourceful, and always on the search for a good mystery, and will have to use her natural talent for solving puzzles to race against time to uncover her own buried history.
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The writers of the original two movies Cormac & Marianne Wibberley, Jerry Bruckheimer and Jon Turteltaub will executive produce the series alongside Rick Muirragui (Suits), who also serves as a writer, as well as Jerry Bruckheimer Television’s Jonathan Littman and KristieAnne Reed. The pilot episode is written by the Wibberleys and will be directed by Mira Nair, who will also executive produce the pilot.
