

The actual treasure of the legend was not a priceless jewel, but the inseparable love between the king and queen.Įnraged, Fairfax seals Loretta and Alan inside the tomb as the volcano erupts. Her Crown of Fire was made of red seashells the king gathered to show his love for her. Alan chases them on a motorcycle, but he is also caught, and Fairfax forces the two to reveal the treasure's location.Īt the tomb's site, they discover it is not a treasure-filled monument of Taha and Kalaman's power, but a secret place for the queen to grieve her husband's death. However, before they can leave, Fairfax again captures Loretta. Upon hearing a local singing a folk song, Loretta deduces that the crown is hidden in a cenote in the jungle.

The two spend a day running from Fairfax's henchmen, then spend a night in a hammock in the jungle, before reaching a nearby village. As the trio attempt to flee, a gunfight ensues, and Jack is apparently shot dead. With no assistance from Alan, Jack breaches Fairfax's compound and frees Loretta. He recruits Jack Trainer, a former Navy SEAL turned CIA operative, and meets with him on the island to coordinate a rescue. When she declines to help decipher an ancient map to the treasure, Fairfax, fearing an active volcano will destroy the site, has Loretta chloroformed and taken to the island.Īlan, who is secretly enamored with Loretta, witnesses her being kidnapped. Fairfax has discovered a lost city on a remote Atlantic island, and is convinced that the Crown of Fire, a priceless treasure belonging to the ancient King Kalaman and Queen Taha, is located there. To promote the latest Lovemore book, her publisher, Beth Hatten, insists that Loretta embark on a book tour with Alan Caprison, the book's cover model for Dash, despite her reclusiveness after her husband's death.Īfter a disastrous start, mostly due to the fans' obsession with Alan's Dash persona, Loretta is kidnapped by billionaire Abigail Fairfax, who realizes that Loretta based her books on actual historical research she did with her late archaeologist husband. Angela Lovemore, and her romantic interest, Dash McMahon. Loretta Sage writes romance-adventure novels centered on a fictional heroine, Dr. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $190 million worldwide against a $68 million budget. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 12, 2022, and was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on March 25, 2022. Filming took place in the Dominican Republic from May to August 2021. The project was announced in October 2020 with Bullock joining as producer and star, and Tatum joining that December the rest of the cast was announced the following year. Starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Brad Pitt, the film follows a romance novelist and her cover model, who must escape a billionaire who wants her to find a lost ancient burial chamber described in one of her books. The Lost City is a 2022 American action-adventure comedy film directed by the Nee brothers, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oren Uziel and Dana Fox, based on a story by Seth Gordon.
