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Just over a decade after he played the pirate captain Blackbeard in Joe Wright’s Peter Pan prequel “Pan,” Aussie actor Hugh Jackman is stepping into the boots of arguably the most famous fictional pirate in all of literature.
Jackman has been enlisted to play Long John Silver in a Ridley Scott-directed new film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel “Treasure Island”.
Scott will direct the film from a script by Emmy-winning “Adolescence” writer Jack Thorne and produce alongside Michael Pruss. Thorne will executive produce.
The 18th-century coming-of-age story follows young Jim Hawkins as he finds a map to Captain Flint’s long-lost fortune and embarks on a perilous voyage aboard the Hispaniola.
Aboard the ship, Jim and the crew face mutiny led by the cunning, one-legged cook, Long John Silver – but ultimately outsmart the pirates to claim the gold.
The work created many aspects of pirate lore from treasure maps with an ‘X’, to the one-legged pirate with a bird on his shoulder.
The story has been adapted to the screen many times, though the last English language film adaptations were back in 1999 and Disney’s “Treasure Planet” back in 2002. More recently, Starz’s acclaimed piracy drama “Black Sails” serves as a prequel to the story.
Jackman will next be seen in “The Death of Robin Hood” which A24 will open next Friday.
Source: Variety
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