I desperately hope there’s something i’m missing about this.
“[Nicholas] Cage will play an archaeologist-historian who is the eighth generation of his family to believe the country’s founding fathers drew a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.”
…Uh huh. So let’s set this up.
You’re Ben Franklin or one of the other original signers. You sign your name to what, at that moment, is arguably the most important piece of parchment (or paper?) on the North American continent. And what do you do with it then? You draw a treasure map on the back of it.
Of course you do.
(argh)
(Looking around a little bit on the Web, I now find various references to the “Beale Treasure”, all of which make my head hurt. No, I’m not going to link to them. Argh again.)
