<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Maybe I'm not looking at this from the right perspective, but it's probably doubtful that any of the writer(s) of National Treasure had read a Don Rosa story and derived inspiration/plagarised, etc. When I saw the film, I didn't think "They lifted Don's plots!!" The plot didn't seem any different from other conspiracy theories people come up with, just maybe a theory with a bit more imagination and coincidence. It's not like Don invented the genre (what the genre is, I'm not sure. Consipracy plots, ancient history coming into play in modern life in weird ways genre, whatever you want to call those types of stories). <BR>
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So if there are any similiarites, it can probably be chalked up to writers simply writing types of stories that are in a certain vein, therefore making it look like one was inspired by the earlier story. So I don't think there's any connection as far as Don's stories and the movie are concerned.<BR>
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Derek Smith</FONT></HTML>