Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson has been adapted for film and television over 50 times. Disney already has several takes on the Pirate tale, including a 1950 version of the same name ...

Aye, for the kind of excitement that only treasure and treachery can bring, there's no better destination than TREASURE ISLAND!

But his “Treasure Island” experience had been with the animated movie, he admitted, which likely downplays that aspect of pirate behavior. But he also understands that necessity.

Disney's first attempt to produce a Treasure Island movie was in 1950. It starred a young Boby Driscoll who would go on to ...