Treasure Island

Feature · Adventure · 98 pages
Status: Spec
A menacing sailor dies at the Admiral Benbow Inn and leaves behind a treasure map found by the innkeeper’s young son -- but the quest for gold is stalked by mutiny, murder, and betrayal … all set in motion by the one-legged pirate Long John Silver. A faithful adaptation of the greatest adventure story ever: Treasure Island.
Written by Gary Parker
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A colleague calls me the Crash Davis of film (Bull Durham analogy): the most experienced screenwriter and filmmaker you never heard of. More than 400 documentaries (IMDb lists a fraction) for PBS, Nat Geo, Discovery, History, Animal Planet, Smithsonian, yada, yada. And not ... one ... flop. My years in docs have given me a Midas touch for adaptation...
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“What I want," declared young Robert Louis Stevenson, as he embarked on a story to entertain his young stepson, "is the best book about buccaneers.” He got it: a tale of pirates and mutiny and treasure: the greatest adventure story of all time. Yet for the past century, no one has made a film worthy of the book. Early versions fail the test of time. (Wallace Beery is passable; Jackie Cooper is insufferable.) Recent versions butcher the novel – and why? The original story is box office gold. And Long John Silver? Think Idris Elba. In the 18th century, a free black man had few paths to wealth. But as a pirate? He could make his fortune.... With a handful of sets and locations, Treasure Island can be affordably produced for under $20 million, and earn ten times or more at the box office: a summer blockbuster in the making – smartly entertaining kids and adults alike around the world. At last -- a timeless story gets the script it deserves.