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EXCLUSIVE: After mounting waste pinch their basking Treasure Island package past month, Ridley Scott and Hugh Jackman look to person recovered nan movie a spot to telephone location arsenic sources show Deadline Sony Pictures is successful negotiations to onshore nan task pinch Scott directing and Jackman connected committee to play nan pirate Blackbeard. Jack Thorne penned nan adjustment of nan classical Robert Louis Stevenson caller pinch Scott and Michael Pruss producing done nan Scott Free banner.
Sony had nary remark connected nan talks.
Deadline first reported past period that Scott had declared this movie his adjacent task aft being blown distant by Thorne’s adjustment of nan classical novel. We besides reported that 20th Century — Scott’s go-to workplace that will release his adjacent film The Dog Stars this August — did get a first look astatine it. It was yet a nary from 20th not because some parties didn’t want to activity together, but alternatively because 20th Century is simply a Disney division; since Pirates of nan Caribbean is a privilege astatine Disney’s live-action unit, they didn’t want a competing pirates task and fto it spell to market. The Dog Stars is based connected Peter Heller’s post-apocalyptic novel.
While respective different studios gave nan package a look, Sony was precocious connected it from nan jump, which makes consciousness fixed Scott’s long-standing narration pinch Sony workplace caput Tom Rothman, who championed respective of Scott’s deed films erstwhile he was co-chairman of 20th Century while besides backing respective caller pics for illustration All nan Money successful nan World and astir precocious Napoleon.
The Treasure Island package is simply a caller return connected Stevenson’s novel. That communicative follows a young boy who uncovers nan representation to a legendary buried treasure, and he embarks connected a perilous oversea voyage to declare a hidden fortune, only to find himself locked successful a deadly conflict of wits pinch nan charismatic and treacherous pirate Long John Silver.
Since its publication successful 1883, Treasure Island has sold much than 100 cardinal copies worldwide and been translated into complete 50 languages, making it 1 of nan astir enduring and influential escapade novels ever written. John Musker and Ron Clements directed an animated adaptation Treasure Planet (2002), successful which Joseph Gordon-Levitt voiced Jim Hawkins. Set successful abstraction and truthful leaning much subject fiction, nan movie besides featured nan voices of Brian Murray arsenic Long John Silver, Martin Short arsenic nan robot Ben and Emma Thompson arsenic Captain Amelia.
Jackman is repped by WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Scott is repped by CAA, Thorne is repped by UTA, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and Sloan, Offer, Weber & Dern.
