{"id":1513977,"date":"2026-06-08T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=b002c0a26ab9577b394b413c902b0c5c"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:45:39","slug":"ridley-scott-to-direct-hugh-jackman-in-new-treasure-island-film-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513977","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott to direct Hugh Jackman in new &#8216;Treasure Island&#8217; film adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/6c130032c8c83ba5302bbdcea5da483f.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Hugh Jackman attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating \"Costume Art\" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026, in New York City. (John Shearer\/WireImage via Getty Images) | Ridley Scott poses for a portrait ahead of his conversation on stage at BFI Southbank on October 5, 2025, in London, England. (John Phillips\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Ridley Scott and Hugh Jackman are taking on an adaptation of a classic novel.<\/p><p>Scott is set to direct Jackman in a new film adaptation of <em>Treasure Island<\/em>, ABC Audio has confirmed. Jackman will play the pirate Long John Silver in this new take on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel.<\/p><p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/hugh-jackman-treasure-island-ridley-scott-jack-thorne-1236949282\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deadline<\/a>, <em>Adolescence<\/em> writer Jack Thorne wrote the film's script and will executive produce. Scott will also produce the film alongside Michael Pruss for the production company Scott Free.<\/p><p>There is currently no studio attached to the project, but it is set to hit the market on Monday, the outlet reports.<\/p><p><em>Treasure Island<\/em> follows a young boy who discovers a map to a legendary buried treasure. He sets out on a journey across the sea to find the fortune, all the while finding himself in a battle of wits with the pirate Long John Silver.<\/p><p>This upcoming adaptation is described as a new take on Stevenson's classic, which was originally published in 1883.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Jackman attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating &#8220;Costume Art&#8221; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026, in New York City. (John Shearer\/WireImage via Getty Images) | Ridley Scott poses for a portrait ahead of his conversation on stage at BFI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1513980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/6c130032c8c83ba5302bbdcea5da483f.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 15:53:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/6c130032c8c83ba5302bbdcea5da483f.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513981,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513977\/revisions\/1513981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}