

Despite Jim's mistrust of Silver, they soon form a tenuous father-son relationship. Jim is sent down to work in the galley, where he is supervised by Silver and his shape-shifting pet, Morph. The crew is a motley bunch, secretly led by the half-robot cook John Silver, whom Jim suspects is the cyborg he was warned about. The ship is commanded by the female feline Captain Amelia along with her stone-skinned and disciplined first mate, Mr. Wanting to make up for his mother, Jim convinces her to let him take the chance with Doppler tagging along.ĭoppler commissions a ship called the RLS Legacy, on a mission to find Treasure Planet. At Doppler's study, Jim deciphers that the sphere is a holographic projector, showing a star map that leads to the location of Treasure Planet. The dying pilot, Billy Bones, entrusts a sphere to Jim and tells him "beware the cyborg." After this, a gang of pirates raid and burn the inn. One day, a spaceship crashes near the inn. He reluctantly helps his mother Sarah run the family's Benbow Inn, and derives amusement from "Alponian solar cruising," skysurfing atop a rocket-powered sailboard, which gets him caught by robotic police regularly for trespassing restricted areas. Twelve years later, Jim has grown into an aloof and isolated teenager. On the planet Montressor, a young Jim Hawkins is enchanted by stories of the legendary Space pirate Captain Nathaniel Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships disappear in order to hide the "loot of a thousand worlds" on the mysterious Treasure Planet. It was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Despite positive critical reception, the film performed poorly in the United States box office, costing $140 million to create while earning $38 million in the United States and Canada and just shy of $110 million worldwide. The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik. Treasure Planet features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Emma Thompson, Laurie Metcalf, and Patrick McGoohan (in his final film role). The film was co-written, co-produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, who had pitched the concept for the film at the same time that they pitched The Little Mermaid. The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation. The film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters. It is the 43rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Production Treasure Planet is a 2002 American animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002.
