Justin Lee Bartha (born July 21, 1978) is an American film and television actor, best known for his co-starring role as Riley Poole in the National Treasure feature films and as Doug Billings in The Hangover.
The Roanoke colony settlers disappeared but they weren’t abducted by native Americans or died off. They were never actually alone. A second ship arrived with them carrying over $500 million worth of gold that England assumed could be used to pay for items settlements and alliances.
The leader of the Roanoke colony took the treasure for himself and relocated everyone to another colony buying their silence. One of the original Roanoke settlers was Clifford Gates a very old relative to Cage’s character. When his journal is unearthed aboard a ship wreck after a recent hurricane off of the Carolinas, it explains the origins of CROATOAN which turns out to be a code leading to the treasure and solving the mystery of what happened to those settlers.
With the possibility of $500 mil to be found. Researchers and treasure hunters will stop at nothing to solve the mystery of Roanoke first. This hunt leads Nic Cage on an adventure from the Carolinas to Virginia and all the way to England as he unearths a centuries long secret regarding the disappearance and wealth of the Roanoke colony.
What he discovers impacts our understand of our nations history altogether and the lengths at which some went to to colonize America.