Treasure Island
Summary:
A swashbuckling adventure and coming of age story on the high seas as Jim Hawkins battles with pirates, friends who become foes and his own morality.
SYNOPSIS
A gritty reimagining of Robert Louie Stevenson’s classic adventure. The timeless tale of reckless buccaneers, buried fortunes, friendships forged in peril on the high seas Treasure Island is the definitive action-adventure. Jim Hawkins may be younger then his shipmates aboard the Hispaniola, but only he holds the map to successfully navigate the schooner to Skeleton Island in search of a legendary buried treasure. Soon after befriending a peg-legged cook named John Silver, Loyalties shift and suspicions of mutiny and skulduggery become a reality. Forced into a complex game of cat-and-mouse, Jim starts to wonder whom he can really trust with the map and his life
You got to be strong in a religious way or have not thought for God at all
Captain Smollett
Key Cast:
Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, Rupert Penry-Jones, Daniel Mays, Philip Glenister, Donald Sutherland
Directed by:
Steve Barron
Written by:
Stewart Harcourt