{"id":818117,"date":"2026-07-23T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818117\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:44:13","slug":"sony-sets-sail-to-scotts-treasure-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818117\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Sets Sail To Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Treasure Island&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sony-sets-sail-to-scotts-treasure-island.jpg\" data-caption=\"Starz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sony-sets-sail-to-scotts-treasure-island.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"sony-sets-sail-to-scotts-treasure-island\"\/><\/a>Starz<\/p>\n<p>Sony Pictures is in negotiations to land the Ridley Scott-directed new film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s 1883 novel \u201cTreasure Island\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Jackman has been enlisted to play Long John Silver in the film, which is expected to be Scott\u2019s next project.<\/p>\n<p>Scott\u2019s usual home at 20th Century Studios reportedly got a first look at the package but passed, the Disney-owned studio citing they didn\u2019t want to handle a competing pirate project with Disney\u2019s own current push for a new \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p>The 18th-century coming-of-age story follows young Jim Hawkins as he finds a map to Captain Flint\u2019s long-lost fortune and embarks on a perilous voyage aboard the Hispaniola.<\/p>\n<p>Aboard the ship, Jim and the crew face mutiny led by the cunning, one-legged cook, Long John Silver \u2013 but ultimately outsmart the pirates to claim the gold. The work created many aspects of pirate lore.<\/p>\n<p>Scott will direct the film from a script by Emmy-winning \u201cAdolescence\u201d writer Jack Thorne and produce alongside Michael Pruss. Thorne will executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>The story has been adapted to the screen many times, though the last English language film adaptations were back in 1999 and Disney\u2019s \u201cTreasure Planet\u201d back in 2002. More recently, Starz\u2019s acclaimed piracy drama \u201cBlack Sails\u201d serves as a prequel to the story.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/sony-ridley-scott-treasure-island-hugh-jackman-1237000487\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/marvel-chief-teases-miles-morales-in-the-mcu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel Chief Teases Miles Morales In The MCU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/sony-alamo-to-re-open-las-cinerama-dome\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony &amp; Alamo To Re-Open LA\u2019s Cinerama Dome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starz Sony Pictures is in negotiations to land the Ridley Scott-directed new film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-818117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}