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'''''Treasure Planet''''' is a 2002 American [[Animation|animated]] [[science fiction film]] produced by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios]], and released by [[Walt Disney Pictures]] on November&nbsp;27, 2002. It is the 43rd [[Animation|animated feature]] in the [[Walt Disney Animated Classics]] series. 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.<ref name="bigbang">{{cite web | last = Murray | first = Rebecca | title = John Rzeznik Sets Sail for "Treasure Planet" | date = November 19, 2002 |publisher=[[About.com]] | url =http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aatreasureplanetsoundtrack.htm | accessdate = 2007-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | last =Diorio | first =Carl | title =Big Bang for Disney's 'Planet' | newspaper =[[Daily Variety]] | page =51 | date =January 25, 2002 | postscript =<!--None--> }}</ref> The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D [[traditional animation]] set atop 3D [[computer animation]].
   
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The film was co-written, co-produced and directed by [[Ron Clements]] and [[John Musker]], who had [[Pitch (filmmaking)|pitched]] the concept for the film at the same time that they pitched ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]''. ''Treasure Planet'' features the voices of [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]], [[Brian Murray (actor)|Brian Murray]], [[David Hyde Pierce]], [[Martin Short]], [[Roscoe Lee Browne]], [[Emma Thompson]], [[Laurie Metcalf]], and [[Patrick McGoohan]] (in his final film role). The musical score was composed by [[James Newton Howard]], while the songs were written and performed by [[John Rzeznik]]. 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.<ref name="bomojo"/> It was nominated for the [[2002 in film|2002]] [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]].
'''''Treasure Planet''''' is a 2002 science fiction [[animated feature]] film produced by [[Walt Disney Feature Animation]], and released by [[Walt Disney Pictures]] on November 27, [[2002]].
 
The 42nd [[animated feature]] in the [[Disney animated features canon]], the film is a science fiction retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure [[novel]] ''Treasure Island''. It was produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker from a screenplay by Musker, Clements, and Rob Edwards. The film was the least financially successful of Disney's animated features and ranks as one of the biggest "[[box office bomb]]s" of all time.{{Fact|date=January 2007}}
 
   
 
== Plot ==
The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation. A similar [[dichotomy]] was used for the character of the [[cyborg]] John Silver: his natural body is hand-animated, but his mechanical arm and eye are computer animated.
 
 
The film's prologue depicts [[Jim Hawkins (character)#Disney version|Jim Hawkins]] as a three-year-old (voiced by Austin Majors) reading a storybook in bed. Jim is enchanted by stories of the legendary [[Space pirate|pirate]] [[Captain Flint]] and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear in order to hide the loot on the mysterious "Treasure Planet". Twelve years later, Jim (now voiced by [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]]) has grown into an aloof and alienated teenager. He is shown begrudgingly helping his mother Sarah ([[Laurie Metcalf]]) run an inn and deriving amusement from "solar surfing" (a hybrid of [[skysurfing]] and [[windsurfing]] atop a board attached to a [[solar energy|solar]]-powered [[rocket]]), a pastime that frequently gets him in trouble.
   
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One day, a spaceship crashes near the inn. The dying pilot, [[Billy Bones]] ([[Patrick McGoohan]]), gives Jim a [[sphere]] and tells him to "beware the [[cyborg]]". Shortly thereafter, a gang of pirates raid and burn the inn. Jim, his mother, and their dog-like friend Dr. Delbert Doppler ([[David Hyde Pierce]]) barely escape. The sphere turns out to be a holographic projector, showing a map that Jim realizes leads to Treasure Planet.
It is the first film ever to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters.
 
   
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Doppler commissions a ship called RLS ''Legacy'', on a mission to find Treasure Planet. The ship is commanded by the cat-like, sharp-witted Captain Amelia ([[Emma Thompson]]) along with her stony-skinned and disciplined [[Chief Mate|First Mate]], Mr. Arrow ([[Roscoe Lee Browne]]). The crew is a motley bunch, secretly led by cook [[Long John Silver|John Silver]] ([[Brian Murray (actor)|Brian Murray]]), whom Jim suspects is the cyborg of whom he was warned. Jim is sent down to work in the galley, where he is supervised by Silver and his shape-shifting pet, Morph (Dane A. Davis). Despite Jim's mistrust of Silver, they soon form a tenuous father-son relationship (a montage featuring the song "[[I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)|I'm Still Here]]" shows Jim and the cyborg bonding over various sailing chores, interspersed with flashbacks from Jim's childhood, during which his father appears indifferent to him and finally leaves without warning when Jim is a pre-teen). During an encounter with a [[supernova]], Silver falls overboard but is saved by Jim. The supernova then devolves into a [[black hole]], where Arrow drifts overboard and is lost, for which Jim blames himself for failing to secure the lifelines, while in fact Arrow's line was cut by a ruthless [[insectoid]] crew member named Scroop ([[Michael Wincott]]).
==Plot synopsis==
 
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As a boy, Jim Hawkins was enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear, hiding the loot on a "treasure planet". As a young man, abandoned by his father, Jim has become alienated, begrudgingly helping his mother run an inn, then getting his only thrills from "solar surfing", a variant of [[windsurfing]] atop a rocket, a pastime that frequently gets him arrested.
 
   
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As the ship reaches Treasure Planet, [[mutiny]] erupts, led by Silver. Jim, Doppler, Amelia, and Morph abandon the ship, accidentally leaving the map behind. Silver, who believes that Jim has the map, has a chance to kill Jim, but refuses to do so because of his attachment to the boy. The fugitives are shot down by a mutineer during their escape, causing injury to Amelia.
One day, a ship crashes near the inn. The dying pilot gives Jim a sphere and tells him to "beware the [[cyborg]]". The sphere turns out to be a projector, showing a map that Jim realizes leads to Treasure Planet (the film's equivalent of Flint's Fist). Shortly thereafter, a gang of pirates raids and torches the inn, with Jim, his mother, and their friend Dr. Doppler barely escaping.
 
   
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While exploring Treasure Planet's forests, the fugitives meet [[Ben Gunn (Treasure Island)#Other media|B.E.N.]] ([[Martin Short]]), an abandoned, whimsical robot who claims to have lost most of his memory and invites them to his house to care for the wounded Amelia. The pirates corner the group here; using a back-door, Jim, B.E.N., and Morph return to the ship in an attempt to recover the map. Scroop, aboard the ship as lookout, stalks and fights Jim. B.E.N., working to sabotage the ship's artillery, accidentally turns off the artificial [[gravity]], whereupon Jim and Scroop threaten to float off into [[space]]. Jim grabs the mast while Scroop becomes entangled in the flag and cuts himself free while Scroop floats away, presumably to his death. Jim and B.E.N. obtain the map. Upon their return, they are captured by Silver, who has already captured, bound, and gagged Doppler and Amelia.
Doppler commissions a ship on a secret mission to find Treasure Planet. The crew is a motley bunch, led by cook John Silver, whom Jim suspects is the cyborg he was warned about. Jim is sent down to work in the galley and despite his mistrust of Silver, they bond, forming a tenuous sort of father-son relationship. Later, Jim comes to realize the crew are pirates and Silver their captain, and that they plan a mutiny.
 
   
 
When Jim is forced to use the map, the group finds their way to a portal that can be opened to any place in the [[universe]]; this being the means by which Flint conducted his raids. The treasure is at the center of the planet, accessible only via the portal. Treasure Planet is revealed to be a large [[space station]] built by unknown architects and commandeered by Flint. In the stash of treasure, Jim comes across the skeletal remains of Flint himself, holding a missing part of B.E.N's cognitive computer. Jim replaces this piece, causing B.E.N. to remember that the planet is set to explode upon the treasure's discovery. In the ensuing catastrophe, in which two of the pirates fall down into the lava and the others escape Silver finds himself torn between holding onto a literal boat-load of gold and saving Jim, who hangs from a precipice after a fall. Silver saves Jim, and the group escapes to the ''Legacy'', which is damaged and lacks the motive power required to leave the planet in time to escape. Jim attaches a rocket to a narrow plate of [[metal]] and rides it toward the portal to open it to a new location while Doppler pilots the ship behind him. Jim manages to open the portal to his home world's spaceport, through which all escape the destruction of Treasure Planet.
As the ship reaches Treasure Planet, the mutiny begins. Jim, Doppler, and Captain Amelia escape to the surface, but what Jim thought was the map is actually Silver's shape-shifting pet, Morph. They meet an abandoned robot, B.E.N. (based on Ben Gunn), who invites them to his house to care for the wounded Amelia who was injured during the escape. The pirates corner the group here, but using a back-door, Jim and B.E.N. return to the ship and recover the real map. Upon their return, they and the map are captured by Silver, who has already captured Doppler and Amelia.
 
   
 
After the escape, Amelia has the surviving pirates imprisoned aboard the ship and offers to recommend Jim to the Interstellar Academy for his heroic actions. Silver sneaks below deck, where Jim finds him preparing his escape. Jim lets him go, and Silver asks Jim to keep Morph. Silver predicts that Jim will "rattle the stars", then tosses him a handful of jewels and gold he had taken from Treasure Planet to pay for rebuilding the inn. The film ends with a party at the rebuilt inn, showing Doppler and Amelia now married with children, and Jim a military cadet. He looks to the skies and sees an image of Silver in the clouds.
With Jim forced to use the map, the group finds their way to a metaphysical portal that leads anywhere in the universe, thus explaining how Flint could conduct his raids. The treasure is at the center of the planet, accessible only via the portal. In fact, the so-called Treasure Planet is in fact a large, complex space-station built by unknown architects and commandeered by Captain Flint. In the stash of treasure, Jim finds a missing part of B.E.N's brain, which causes him to remember that the stash is booby-trapped and the planet is set to self-destruct. In the ensuing catastrophe, Silver finds himself torn between holding onto a literal boat-load of gold and saving Jim, who hangs from a precipice after a fall. Silver saves Jim, and the group escapes to their original ship. It cannot clear the planet in time, so Jim fashions a surfer out of sheet metal and a broken rocket, flies down and operates the portal so that he and the ship can fly through the portal to safety halfway across the galaxy.
 
   
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==Cast==
Escaping the destruction of Treasure Planet, the surviving members of the pirate crew are tied up and prison-bound. Silver has snuck below deck, where Jim finds him preparing his escape. Jim lets him go, and Silver tosses him a handful of jewels and gold to pay for rebuilding the inn. The film ends with a party at the rebuilt inn, showing Doppler and Amelia now married with children, and Jim a military cadet. He looks to the skies and sees an image of Silver in the clouds.
 
 
*Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jim Hawkins
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*Brian Murray as John Sliver
 
*Emma Thompson as Captain Amelia
 
*Michael Wincott as Scroop
 
*David Hyde Pierce as Delbert Doppler
 
*Dane A. Davis as Morph
 
*Laurie Metcalf as Sarah
 
*Martin Short as B.E.N.
 
*Roscoe Lee Browne as Mr Arrow
 
*Patrick McGoohan as Billy Bones
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*Corey Burton as Onus
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*Michael McShane as Hands
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*Austin Majors as Young Jim
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*Tony Jay as Narrator
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===Additional Voices===
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*Jack Angel as Grewnge, Police Robot 2
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*Rodger Bumpass as Turnbuckle, Police Robot 1
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*Jane Carr as Mrs. Dunwitty
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*John Cygan as Hedley
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*Patrick Pinney as Crex
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*Paul Eiding as Verne
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*Phil Proctor as Blinko, Pirates
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*Jeremy Suarez as Ethan, Little Alien Kid
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*Jim Ward as Torrance
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*Mona Marshall as Alien Mother
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*Bob Bergen as Robot on ladder, Mr. Snuff
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*Jennifer Darling as Female Alien
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*Sherry Lynn as Dogbreath
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*Mickie McGowan as Bird Brain Mary
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===Uncredited===
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*Dee Bradley Baker as Favyoon, Longbourne, Mertock
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*Peter Cullen as Captain Nathaniel Flint
   
==Reception==
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== Production ==
===Critical reaction===
 
Critical opinion of ''Treasure Planet'' was lukewarm. It received very few enthusiastic reviews from major critics, and many critics, such as [[Roger Ebert]],<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021127/REVIEWS/211270302/1023 Roger Ebert - ''Treasure Planet'', Chicago Sun Times, 2002]</ref> felt the film fell well short of the studio's best work.
 
   
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=== Development ===
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''Treasure Planet'' took roughly four and a half years to create, but the concept for ''Treasure Planet'' (which was called "Treasure Island in Space" at the time) was originally [[Pitch (filmmaking)|pitched]] by Ron Clements in 1985 during the meeting wherein he and John Musker also pitched ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]''.<ref name="scenefilm">{{cite web | last = Everett | first = Clayton | title = Treasure Island as it has never been seen before | publisher = ''The Scene Magazine'' | date = June 6, 2002 | url = http://www.scene-magazine.com/archive/filmarchive.php?filmarcid=38 | archiveurl = http://replay.web.archive.org/20090330210757/http://www.scene-magazine.com/archive/filmarchive.php?filmarcid=38 | archivedate=2009-03-30 | accessdate = 2011-05-08}}</ref><ref name="commentary">{{cite video | people =Ron Clements, Roy Conli, Dan Cooper, Roy Disney, Ian Gooding, Glen Keane, John Musker, John Ripa | title =Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: Visual Commentary | medium =DVD | publisher =[[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] |date = 2003 }}</ref> Clements stated that [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]], who was the chief of Walt Disney Studios at the time, "just wasn't interested" in the idea.<ref name="ew">{{Cite news | last = | first = | author-link = | title = Treasure Planet | newspaper = Entertainment Weekly | issue=668-668 |page = 64 | date = August 2002 | postscript = <!--None-->}}</ref> Since Musker and Clements wanted to be able to move "the camera around a lot like Steven Spielberg or James Cameron," the delay in production was beneficial since "the technology had time to develop in terms of really moving the camera."<ref name="ign">{{cite web | last = B. | first = Scott | title = An Interview with Ron Clements and John Musker | publisher = IGN | date = November 27, 2002 | url = http://movies.ign.com/articles/378/378511p1.html | accessdate = 2008-11-07}}</ref> Principal animation for the film began in 2000 with roughly 350 crew members working on it.<ref name="techtreasure">{{Cite journal | last =Ferguson | first =Amy | author-link =Amy Ferguson | title =Technological Treasure: Disney's planet breaks new ground in animation.(Walt Disney Pictures)('Treasure Planet') | journal=[[Film Journal International]] | volume=105 | pages =16–17 |date=November 2002 | postscript =<!--None-->}}</ref> In 2002, Roy Conli estimated that there were around 1,027 crew members listed in the screen credits with "about four hundred artists and computer artists, about a hundred and fifty musicians and another two hundred technologists".<ref name="scenefilm" />
''Treasure Planet'' was a major [[box office bomb]], one of the biggest in movie history. Its box-office gross of $109 million worldwide was well short of its estimated $140 million production cost even before the box-office cut was deducted (the studio typically receives about half of the box office gross). Additionally, the film had spent an estimated $40 million for marketing, making the total loss over $125 million. The movie's failure forced Disney, a multibillion dollar company, to restate its earnings estimates for the following quarter.<ref>[http://www.thestreet.com/_intuit/markets/marketfeatures/10056965.html Treasure Planet's Flop Cuts Disney Earnings - TheStreet.com]</ref>
 
   
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According to Conli, Clements wanted to create a space world that was "warm and had more life to it than you would normally think of in a science fiction film", as opposed to the "stainless steel, blue, smoke coming from the bowels of heavily pipe laden" treatment of science fiction.<ref name="scenefilm" /> In order to make the film "fun" by creating more exciting action sequences and because they believed that having the characters wear space suits and helmets "would take all the romance out of it",<ref name="p9muskerclements">{{cite web | title = TREASURE PLANET Q&A with producers / directors / co-writers RON CLEMENTS & JOHN MUSKER | publisher = Phase 9 Entertainment | year = 2005 | url = http://www.phase9.tv/moviefeatures/treasureplanetq&a-ronclements&johnmusker1.shtml | doi = | accessdate = 2008-12-12 }}</ref> the crew created the concept of the "Etherium," an "outer space filled with atmosphere".<ref name="commentary" /><ref>{{cite book | last =Kurtti | first =Jeff | title =Treasure Planet: A Voyage of Discovery | publisher =[[List of assets owned by Disney#Consumer Products|Disney Editions]] | date =October 1, 2002 | pages = | isbn = 0-7868-5366-2}}</ref>
Critics argue that ''Treasure Planet'' destroyed Disney's animation studio, in the same way that ''[[Heaven's Gate (movie)|Heaven's Gate]]'' destroyed [[United Artists]] or ''[[Cutthroat Island]]'' ruined [[Carolco Pictures|Carolco]]. Within 18 months of the film's release, Disney had laid off thousands of animators, closed its Florida animation studio, cancelled production on one movie (''[[A Few Good Ghosts]]'') and burned off two others with little promotion (''[[Brother Bear]]'' and ''[[Home on the Range (movie)|Home on the Range]]''), leaving it with no traditional [[cel animation|cel-animated]] films in production. The remaining artists were all retrained in computer animation techniques for future films, in accordance with a management belief that audiences no longer wanted to see 2D animation. Currently, Disney is planning on making a slow return to 2D animation, despite already being in production of three other CGI-animated movies.
 
   
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Several changes were made late in the production to the film. The prologue of the film originally featured an adult Jim Hawkins narrating the story of Captain Flint in [[First-person narrative|first person]],<ref name="commentary" /><ref>{{cite video | people =Ron Clements, John Musker | title =Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: Deleted Scenes - Original Prologue: Adult Jim | medium =DVD | publisher =[[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] |date = 2003 }}</ref> but the crew considered this to be too "dark" and felt that it lacked character involvement.<ref name="commentary" /> The crew also intended for the film to include a sequence showing Jim working on his solar surfer and interacting with an alien child, which was intended to show Jim's more sensitive side and as homage to ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''.<ref name="jimethan">{{cite video | people =Ron Clements, John Musker | title =Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: Deleted Scenes - Jim Meets Ethan | medium =DVD | publisher =[[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] |date = 2003 }}</ref> Because of the intention to begin the film with a scene of Jim solar surfing, the sequence had to be cut.<ref name="jimethan" />
Despite their string of hits before ''Treasure Planet'', Musker and Clements were released from their contracts with Disney a year after the film's release. However, Musker and Clements returned to the studio in 2006.
 
   
==Credits==
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=== Writing ===
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Writer [[Rob Edwards (screenwriter)|Rob Edwards]] stated that "it was extremely challenging" to take a classic novel and set it in outer space, and that they did away with some of the science fiction elements ("things like the metal space ships and the coldness") early on. Edwards goes on to say that they "did a lot of things to make the film more modern" and that the idea behind setting the film in outer space was to "make the story as exciting for kids now as the book was for kids then".<ref name="edwards">{{cite web | last = Lee | first = Alana | title = Rob Edwards: Treasure Planet | publisher = [[BBC Online]] | date = | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/02/04/rob_edwards_treasure_planet_interview.shtml | accessdate = 2008-11-05}}</ref>
===Voice cast===
 
{| class="wikitable" width="45%"
 
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
 
! Actor !! Role(s)
 
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|[[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] || Jim Hawkins
 
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|[[Brian Murray]] || John Silver
 
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|David Hyde Pierce || Dr. Doppler
 
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|[[Martin Short]] || B.E.N
 
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|Emma Thompson || Captain Amelia
 
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|Michael Wincott || Scroop
 
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|Laurie Metcalf || Sarah Hawkins
 
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|[[Roscoe Lee Browne]] || Mr. Arrow
 
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|Patrick McGoohan || Billy Bones
 
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|[[Dane A. Davis]] || [[Morph]]
 
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|[[Phil Proctor]] || Meltdown
 
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With regard to adapting the characters from the book to film, Ron Clements mentioned that the Jim Hawkins in the book is a "a very smart, very capable kid", but they wanted to make Jim start out as "a little troubled kid" who "doesn't really know who he is" while retaining the aforementioned characteristics from the original character. The "mentor figures" for Jim Hawkins in the novel were Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey, whom John Musker described as "one is more comic and the other's very straight"; these two characters were fused into Dr. Doppler. Clements also mentions that though the father-son relationship between Jim Hawkins and John Silver was present "to some degree" in the book, they wanted to emphasize it more in the film.<ref name="white" />
==Soundtrack==
 
The soundtrack to the movie was largely orchestral in nature, although it produced two moderately successful pop singles from [[The Goo Goo Dolls]] [[frontman]] [[Johnny Rzeznik]] and British [[vocal group]] [[BBMak]]. The orchestration was noted by [[Soundtrack.net]] [http://www.soundtrack.net/soundtracks/database/?id=3291] for its use of the electric guitar and Celtic elements. Scottish fiddler [[Alasdair Fraser]] and members of his Skyedance band play on several of the pieces, particularly the ones featuring dance elements on screen.
 
   
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=== Casting ===
The score material was done by [[James Newton Howard]].
 
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[[File:JimSilverDisney.jpg|thumb|175px|right|Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins examine the planetary map. Silver's cyborg arm was created with computer animation.]]
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Casting director Ruth Lambert held a series of casting auditions for the film in [[New York]], [[Los Angeles]] and [[London]], but the crew already had some actors in mind for two of the major characters.<ref name="p9conli">{{cite web | title = TREASURE PLANET Q&A with producer ROY CONLI | publisher = Phase 9 Entertainment | year = 2005 | url = http://www.phase9.tv/moviefeatures/treasureplanetq&a-royconli1.shtml | doi = | accessdate = 2008-12-12 }}</ref> The character of Dr. Doppler was written with David Hyde Pierce in mind,<ref name="scenefilm" /><ref name="white">{{cite web | last = White | first = Cindy | title = The creators of Treasure Planet sail the animated spaceways | publisher = [[Syfy#Website|Sci Fi.com]] | date = November 25, 2002 | url = http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw9163.html | archiveurl = http://replay.web.archive.org/20090402065305/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw9163.html | archivedate = 2009-04-02 | accessdate = 2011-05-08}}</ref> and Pierce was given a copy of the ''Treasure Planet'' script along with preliminary sketches of the character and the film's scenic elements while he was working on ''[[A Bug's Life]].'' He stated that "the script was fantastic, the look was so compelling" that he accepted the role.<ref name="joblo">{{cite web | last = Gunn | first = John | title = Interviews: Treasure Planet | publisher = JoBlo Movie Network | date = November 28, 2002 | url = http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=1118 | accessdate = 2008-11-05}}</ref> Likewise, the character of Captain Amelia was developed with the idea that Emma Thompson would be providing her voice.<ref name="hollyJesus">{{cite web |url= http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/treasure_planet_about.htm |title= Treasure Planet - About this film: BRINGING LIFE TO A COLORFUL CAST OF HUMANS AND ALIENS |work=hollywoodjesus.com |accessdate=9 October 2011}}</ref> "We offered it to her and she was really excited," Clements said. Musker said, "This is the first action adventure character that Emma has ever played and she was pregnant during several of the sessions. She was happy that she could do all this action and not have to [[Physical exercise|train]] for the part"<ref name="hollyJesus"/> There were no actors initially in mind for the characters of John Silver and Jim Hawkins; Brian Murray (John Silver) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Jim Hawkins) were signed after months of auditions.<ref name="scenefilm" /> Gordon-Levitt stated that he was attracted to the role because "it's a Disney animated movie and Disney animated movies are in a class by themselves," and that "to be part of that tradition is unbelievable to me".<ref name="gordon-levitt">{{cite web | last = Lee | first = Alana | title = Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Treasure Planet | publisher = [[BBC Online]] | date = | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/02/04/joseph_gordon_levitt_treasure_planet_interview.shtml | accessdate = 2008-11-05}}</ref> Musker mentioned that Gordon-Levitt "combined enough vulnerability and intelligence and a combination of youthfulness but incompleteness" and that they liked his approach.<ref name="white" />
   
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Among the lead actors, only Pierce had experience with voice acting prior to the making of ''Treasure Planet''. Conli explained that they were looking for "really the natural voice of the actor", and that sometimes it was better to have an actor with no experience with voice work as he utilizes his natural voice instead of "affecting a voice".<ref name="scenefilm" /> The voice sessions were mostly done without any interaction with the other actors,<ref name="white" /><ref name="joblo" /> but Gordon-Levitt expressed a desire to interact with Brian Murray because he found it difficult to act out most of the scenes between Jim Hawkins and John Silver alone.<ref name="white" />
===Track listing===
 
#"I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)" - Johnny Rzeznik
 
#"Always Know Where You Are" - BBMak
 
#"12 Years Later"
 
#"To The Spaceport"
 
#"Rooftop"
 
#"Billy Bones"
 
#"The Map"
 
#"Silver"
 
#"The Launch"
 
#"Silver Comforts Jim"
 
#"Jim Chases Morph"
 
#"Ben"
 
#"Silver Bargains"
 
#"The Back Door"
 
#"The Portal"
 
#"Jim Saves the Crew"
 
#"Silver Leaves"
 
   
===Trivia===
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=== Design and animation ===
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[[Image:One More Step, Mr. Hands.jpg|thumb|200px|An illustration by N.C. Wyeth titled ''One More Step, Mr. Hands'' for a 1911 publication of ''[[Treasure Island]]''. This type of illustration, which was described by the film crew as "classic storybook illustration," was the basis for ''Treasure Planet'''s overall look.]]
*Disney used animation records of Captain Hook, from [[Peter Pan]] to test Silver's robotic arm.
 
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While designing for ''Treasure Planet'', the crew operated on rule they call the "70/30 Law" (an idea that art director Andy Gaskill has credited to Ron Clements), which meant that the overall look of the film's artwork should be 70% traditional and 30% [[sci-fi]].<ref>{{cite video | people =Andy Gaskill, Ian Gooding | title =Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: The 70/30 Law | medium =DVD | publisher =[[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] |date = 2003 }}</ref> The overall look of ''Treasure Planet'' was based on the art style promoted by illustrators associated with the [[Brandywine School|Brandywine School of Illustration]] (such as [[Howard Pyle]] and [[N.C. Wyeth]]), whose illustrations have been described by the film's crew as being the "classic storybook illustration," having a [[painterly]] feel to it, and being composed of a warm color [[Palette (painting)|palette]].<ref>{{cite video | people =Ron Clements, Dan Cooper, Roy Disney, Andy Gaskill, Ian Gooding, John Musker | title =Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: The Brandywine School | medium =DVD | publisher =[[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] |date = 2003 }}</ref> The animators took ''Deep Canvas'', a technology which they had initially developed for ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'', and came up with a process they called "Virtual Sets," wherein they created entire 360 [[Degree (angle)|degree]] sets before they began staging the scenes.<ref name="scenefilm" /> They combined this process with traditionally-drawn characters in order to achieve a "painted image with depth perception" and enabled the crew to place the camera anywhere in the set and maneuver it as they would maneuver a camera for a live-action film.<ref name="techtreasure" /> In order to test how a computer-generated body part (specifically John Silver's cyborg arm) would mesh with a traditionally animated character, the crew took a clip of [[Captain Hook]] from [[Peter Pan (1953 film)|''Peter Pan'']] and replaced his arm with the cyborg arm.<ref>{{cite video | people =Glen Keane | title =Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: The "Hook" Test | medium =DVD | publisher =[[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] |date = 2003 }}</ref>
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There were around forty animators on the crew, and were further divided into teams; for example, sixteen animators were assigned to Jim Hawkins because he appeared on the screen the most, and twelve were assigned to John Silver. To ensure "solidity" in illustration and personality, each major character in the film had a team of animators led by one supervisor. Conli mentioned that the personalities of the supervisors affect the final character, citing Glen Keane (the supervisor for John Silver) as well as John Ripa (the supervisor for Jim Hawkins) as examples. The physical appearance, movements, and facial expressions of the voice actors were infused into the characters as well.<ref name="scenefilm" />
==See also==
 
*List of animated feature-length films
 
   
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When asked if they drew inspiration from the previous film adaptations of ''Treasure Island'' for the character designs, Glen Keane stated that he disliked looking at previous portrayals of the character in order to "clear his mind of stereotypes", but that he drew some inspiration for the manner by which Silver spoke from actor [[Wallace Beery]], whom he "loved because of the way he talked out of the side of his mouth." For the characterization and design for Jim Hawkins, John Ripa cited [[James Dean]] as an important reference because "there was a whole attitude, a posture" wherein "you felt the pain and the youthful innocence", and he also cited the film ''[[Braveheart]]'' because "there are a lot of close-ups on characters...who are going through thought processes, just using their eyes."<ref name="p9keaneandripa">{{cite web | title = TREASURE PLANET Q&A with animators JOHN KEANE & JOHN RIPA | publisher = Phase 9 Entertainment | year = 2005 | url = http://www.phase9.tv/moviefeatures/treasureplanetq&a-glenkeane&johnripa1.shtml | doi = | accessdate = 2008-12-12}}</ref>
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Animators also used [[maquette]]s, small statues of the characters in the film, as references throughout the animation process. Character sculptor Kent Melton mentioned that the first Disney film to use maquettes was ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'', and that this paved the way to the formation of an entire department devoted to character sculpting. Keane noted that maquettes are not just supposed to be "like a mannequin in a store", but rather has to be "something that tells you [the character's] personality" and that maquettes also helped inspire the way actors would portray their roles.<ref name="maquettes">{{cite video | people =Kent Melton, Glen Keane | title =Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: Maquettes | medium =DVD | publisher =[[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]] |date = 2003 }}</ref>
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This "70/30 Law" was not only applied to the visual designs for the film, but also for the sound effects and music. Sound designer Dane Davis mentioned that he and his team "scoured hobby shops and junk stores for antique windup toys and old spinning mechanisms" in order to create the sound effects for John Silver to "avoid sounding slick or sci-fi". The team did some experimentation with the sound used in dialogues, especially with the robot B.E.N., but opted to keep the actor's (Martin Short's) natural voice because everything they tried "affected his comedy", and "the last thing you want to do in a story like this is affect performances".<ref name="sound">{{cite web | last = Droney | first = Maureen | title = Avast and Away! | publisher = ''Mix Magazine'' | date = January 1, 2003 | url = http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_avast_away/ | accessdate = 2008-11-07}}</ref>
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The music from the film is largely orchestral in nature, although it includes two moderately successful pop singles ("[[I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)|I'm Still Here]]" and "Always Know Where You Are") from [[The Goo Goo Dolls]] [[frontman]] [[John Rzeznik]] and British pop-rock group, [[BBMak]]. Both songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik in the film, but BBMak recorded "Always Know Where You Are" for the soundtrack. The [[Film score|score]] was composed by [[James Newton Howard]], who said that the score is "very much in the wonderful tradition of [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold|Korngold]] and [[Dimitri Tiomkin|Tiomkin]] and [[Max Steiner|Steiner]]."<ref>{{Cite news | last =Flick | first =Larry | title =Soundtracks | newspaper =[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | page =16 | date =December 7, 2002 | postscript =<!--None-->}}</ref> The score has been described as a mixture of modern music in the spirit of [[Star Wars]] and [[Celtic music]].<ref name="klein"/><ref>{{cite web | last =Brennan | first =Mike | title =Soundtrack.Net: Treasure Planet Soundtrack | date = April 12, 2005 | publisher = [[SoundtrackNet]] | url =http://www.soundtrack.net/soundtracks/database/?id=3291 | accessdate = 2007-08-04 }}</ref> Scottish fiddler [[Alasdair Fraser]] is credited as the co-composer of the track "Silver Leaves",<ref name=howardsoundtrack>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Treasure Planet Soundtrack - James-Newton-Howard.com | publisher = James-Newton-Howard.com | date = October 30, 2005 | url = http://www.james-newton-howard.com/main.html?/discography/treasureplanet.html | accessdate = 2008-11-05}}</ref> and is also listed as a soloist in the film's credits. [[Walt Disney Records]] released the film's [[soundtrack album]] on November 19, 2002.<ref name=howardsoundtrack />
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Prior to and during its theatrical run, ''Treasure Planet'' had promotional support from [[McDonald's]], [[Pepsi-Cola]], [[Dreyer's]], and [[Kellogg Company]]. McDonald's included promotional items such as action figures and puzzles in their [[Happy Meal]]s and Mighty Meals, Pepsi-Cola placed promotional film graphics onto the packaging of a number of their soft drinks ([[Mountain Dew]], [[Mountain Dew#Current|Code Red]] [[Sierra Mist]], [[Mug Root Beer]], [[Orange Slice]] and [[Brisk (beverage)|Lipton Brisk]]), Dreyer's used their delivery truck panels to promote ice cream flavors inspired by the film (such as "Galactic Chocolate" and "Vanilla Treasure"), and Kellog included film-branded spoons in their cereal boxes.<ref name="brandweek">{{Cite news | last = Finnigan | first = David | title = Disney's SEARCH for TREASURE. | newspaper = Brandweek | volume= 43 | issue= 29 | page = 1 | date = August 12, 2002 | url = | postscript = <!--None--> }}</ref> [[Hasbro]] also released a line-up of ''Treasure Planet'' action figures and toys.<ref name="brandweek" /><ref name="bnet">{{cite news | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Hasbro Arrives at 2002 Toy Fair With Some of the Hottest Brands in Family Entertainment | publisher = | date = February 5, 2002 | url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Feb_5/ai_82524902/pg_6 | doi = | accessdate = 2008-11-24 | work=Business Wire}}</ref><ref name="toymania">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Treasure Planet - Hasbro - Toy Fair 2002 | publisher = Raving Toy Maniac | date = | url = http://www.toymania.com/toyshows/tf2002/prehasbro-treasure.shtml | doi = | accessdate = 2008-11-24}}</ref>
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''Treasure Planet'' held its world premiere at the [[Cinerama Dome]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|Hollywood]] on November 17, 2002,<ref name="premierepress">{{cite press release | title = World Premiere of WALT DISNEY PICTURES' TREASURE PLANET Sunday, November 17th at the Historic Cinerama Dome | publisher = | date = November 14, 2002 | url = http://www.seeing-stars.com/Meet/MoviePremierePressReleases/TreasurePlanet.shtml | accessdate = 2009-03-12}}</ref><ref name="lp">{{cite web | last = Moseley | first = Doobie | coauthors = Rebekah Moseley | title = Treasure Planet World Premiere | publisher = LaughingPlace.com | date = November 21, 2002 | url = http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID506680.asp | accessdate = 2009-02-14}}</ref> though it was also screened in [[Paris|Paris, France]] on November 6, 2002.<ref name="bbcparis">{{cite news | last = | first = | title = Disney's Treasure Planet unveiled | publisher = [[BBC Online]] | date = November 6, 2002 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2408829.stm | doi = | accessdate = 2009-03-12}}</ref> The film is "the first major studio feature" to be released in regular and [[IMAX]] theaters simultaneously; this was done in the light of the success of Disney films that were re-released in IMAX format, such as ''[[Fantasia 2000]]'' and ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''.<ref name="bigbang" /> [[Dick Cook]], chairman of [[The Walt Disney Company#Company divisions|Walt Disney Studio Entertainment]], also mentioned that the simultaneous release was a good way to distinguish themselves during the competitive holiday season.<ref name="ew" />
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There are few scenes from Treasure Planet was cut from the film. The scene is Delbert calling out to Jim and Scroop licking a purp juice. This would never appear in the film when they removed it for children. During production of Treasure Planet and wallpapers of the film. Amelia's hair changed color from orange to black. When it almost finished, her hair is orange.
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''Treasure Planet'' received generally positive reviews from film critics and (as of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}) retains a 70% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave it 2.5 stars out of 4. While not completely writing off the film, he felt that a more traditional take on the film would have been "more exciting" and "less gimmicky".<ref name="egbert">{{cite news | last =Ebert| first =Roger |authorlink =Roger Ebert| title =Treasure Planet | date = November 27, 2002 | publisher = rogerebert.com | url =http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021127/REVIEWS/211270302/1023 | accessdate = 2007-08-18}}</ref> Andy Klein of ''[[Daily Variety|Daily Variety Gotham]]'' complained about the script, describing it as "listless" and remarked, "If only its script were as amusing as its visuals."<ref name="klein">{{Cite news | last =Klein| first =Andy | title =Film Review: Treasure Planet | newspaper =[[Daily Variety|Daily Variety Gotham]] | page =14 | date =November 25, 2002 | postscript =<!--None-->}}</ref> [[A. O. Scott]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described the film as "less an act of homage than a clumsy and cynical bit of piracy", and went on to say that it is "not much of a movie at all" and a "brainless, mechanical picture".<ref name="scott">{{Cite news | last=Scott | first=A.O. | author-link=A.O. Scott | title=FILM REVIEW; 'Treasure Island' Flies Into Neurosis. | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | page=3 | date=November 27, 2002 | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E1DC1638F934A15752C1A9649C8B63 | postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref> Owen Gleiberman of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' described the film as "all cutesy updated fripperies and zero momentum."<ref name="gleiberman">{{Cite news | last=Gleiberman | first=Owen | author-link=Owen Gleiberman | title=Booty Pall. | newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]] | volume= | issue=685 | page=70
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There were also many critics who praised the film, including [[Stephen Hunter]] of [[The Washington Post]], who stated that the film "boasts the purest of Disney raptures: It unites the generations, rather than driving them apart".<ref>{{Cite news | last =Hunter | first =Stephen | author-link =Stephen Hunter | title =Unburied Pleasure: 'Treasure Planet' Transports to a Swashbuckling Future | newspaper = [[Washington Post]] | pages = C01 | date = 2007-11-27 | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43867-2002Nov26 | postscript =<!--None-->}}</ref> Leah Rozen of ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' stated that the film "has imagination, humor aplenty and moves briskly", and that "the animation, combining traditional and digital techniques, is ravishing."<ref name="rozen">{{Cite news | last=Rozen | first=Leah | author-link= | title=Treasure Planet (Film) | newspaper=[[People (magazine)|People]] | volume=58 | issue=24 | page=39 | date=December 9, 2002 | url= | postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref> Claudia Puig of ''[[USA Today]]'' said that the film's most noteworthy feature is "the artful way it combines the futuristic and the retro", and went on to say that the film doesn't have the "charm of ''[[Lilo & Stitch]]''" nor the "dazzling artistry of ''[[Spirited Away]]''", but concluded that ''Treasure Planet'' is "a capable and diverting holiday season adventure for a family audience."<ref name="puig">{{Cite news | last=Puig | first=Claudia | title=See 'Treasure Planet' for looks, not charm | newspaper=[[USA Today]] | volume= | issue= | pages= | date=November 27, 2002 | url= | postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref> Kim Hollis of [[Box Office Prophets]] stated that "there's plenty to recommend the film&nbsp;–&nbsp;the spectacular visuals alone make Treasure Planet a worthwhile watch," though expressing disappointment because she felt that the characters were "not all that creatively rendered".<ref name="hollis">{{cite web | last =Hollis | first =Kim | title =Drawn That Way: Treasure Planet | date = May 6, 2003 | publisher = [[Box Office Prophets]] | url =http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/hollis/animation050603.asp | accessdate = 2007-08-18}}</ref>
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''Treasure Planet'' was released in [[DVD]] and [[VHS]] format in the United States and Canada on April 29, 2003. The DVD includes behind-the-scenes featurettes, a visual commentary, deleted scenes, teaser and theatrical trailers, the music video for the song "I'm Still Here" by John Rzeznik, and a virtual tour of the RLS Legacy.<ref name="dvd">{{cite video | title = Treasure Planet | medium = DVD | publisher = Walt Disney Video |date = 2003}}</ref> The DVD retained the number one spot in ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'''s top sales for two weeks<ref name="billboarddvd1">{{Cite news | last= | first= | author-link= | title=TOP DVD SALES. | newspaper=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | volume=115 | issue=21 | page=41 | date=May 24, 2003 | postscript= <!--None-->}}</ref><ref name="billboarddvd2">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Top DVD Sales | publisher = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | date = May 31, 2003 | url = http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=386&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Top+DVD+Sales&ci=3049705&cdi=8004751&cid=05%2F31%2F2003 | doi = | accessdate = 2008-11-25 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/20090326020853/www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=386&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Top+DVD+Sales&ci=3049705&cdi=8004751&cid=05/31/2003|archivedate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> and the VHS was number one in sales for three weeks.<ref name="billboardvhs1">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Top DVD Sales | publisher = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | date = May 24, 2003 | url = http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=389&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Top+VHS+Sales&ci=3049632&cdi=8002149&cid=05%2F24%2F2003 | doi = | accessdate = 2008-11-25 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/20090326030724/www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=389&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Top+VHS+Sales&ci=3049632&cdi=8002149&cid=05/24/2003|archivedate=2009-03-26}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="billboardvhs2">{{Cite news | last= | first= | author-link= | title=TOP VHS SALES. | newspaper=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | volume=115 | issue=23 | page=60 | date=June 7, 2003 | postscript= <!--None-->}}</ref><ref name="billboardvhs3">{{Cite news | last= | first= | author-link= | title=TOP VHS SALES. | newspaper=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | volume=115 | issue=24 | page=62 | date=June 14, 2003 | postscript= <!--None-->}}</ref> From April to July 2003, ''Treasure Planet'' brought in $64 Million in DVD sales.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2002/TPLNT.php |title=Treasure Planet - Box Office Data, DVD Sales, Movie News, Cast Information |publisher=The Numbers |date= |accessdate=2012-11-26}}</ref> If this would be added to total revenue, ''Treasure Planet'' could be considered a moderate success with total revenues just under $174 Million.
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Disney released a 10th Anniversary special edition Blu-ray/DVD combo on July 3, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/treasure-planet.html |title=Treasure Planet &#124; Now On Blu-Ray Combo Pack &#124; Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment |publisher=Disneydvd.disney.go.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Treasure Planet (10th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] |url=http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Planet-Anniversary-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B007KUFDBY/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1339523106&sr=1-3 |title=Treasure Planet (10th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray&#93;: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson, Martin Short, Patrick McGoohan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Wincott, Dane A. Davis, Austin Majors, Corey Burton, Tony Jay, Michael McShane, John Musher, Ron Clement, Barry Johnson, Donnie Long, Frank Nissen, Kaan Kaylon: Movies & TV |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-26}}</ref>
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The film was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]], but lost to ''[[Spirited Away]]''.<ref name="academy">{{cite web | title = 2002 (75th) | publisher =[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] | date = | url = http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1228959144749 | doi = | accessdate = 2008-12-11}}</ref> It was also nominated for a number of [[Annie Awards]].<ref>Outstanding Character Animation, Outstanding Character Design in an Animated Feature Production, Outstanding Directing in an Animated Feature Production, Outstanding Effects Animation, Outstanding Production Design in an Animated Feature Production, Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production, and Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production - {{cite web | last = | first = | title = 30th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners | year = 2002 | publisher = [[Annie Award]]s | url =http://www.annieawards.com/30thannieawardwinners.htm | accessdate = 2007-08-10 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070702195208/http://www.annieawards.com/30thannieawardwinners.htm |archivedate = 2007-07-02}}</ref>
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Before ''Treasure Planet'' was shown in cinemas, [[Thomas Schumacher]], then president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, mentioned the possibilities of having direct-to-video releases for ''Treasure Planet'' as well as a television series. He stated that they already had "a story and some storyboards and concepts up and a script for what a sequel to [''Treasure Planet''] could be," and that they also had a "notion" of what the series would be.<ref>{{cite web | last = Tomooka | first = Jennifer | title = Future TREASURE PLANET projects could be in the works | publisher = Mania.com | date = October 16, 2002 | url = http://www.mania.com/future-treasure-planet-projects-could-works_article_36554.html | accessdate = 2008-11-05}}</ref>
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Several ''Treasure Planet'' video games were released in 2002. [[Disney Interactive]] released the naval strategy game ''[[Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon]]'' for the [[Personal computer|PC]] in October,<ref name="procyon">{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon | publisher = [[GameSpot]] | url = http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/treasureplanetbattleap/index.html | accessdate = 2008-11-08}}</ref> while [[Sony Computer Entertainment America]] released a ''Treasure Planet'' action video game for the [[PlayStation]] and [[PlayStation 2]] in November.<ref name="tpships">{{cite web | last = Parker | first = Sam | title = Treasure Planet ships | publisher = [[GameSpot]] | date = November 12, 2002 | url = http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/treasureplanetbattleap/news.html?sid=2897435&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title;1 | accessdate = 2008-11-08}}</ref> A series of games collectively called ''Disney's Treasure Planet: Training Academy'' was also released in 2002. It was composed of three games (''Broadside Blast'', ''Treasure Racer'', and ''Etherium Rescue''), and players with all three games could unlock a fourth game (''Ship Shape'').<ref name="training">{{cite web | last = House | first = Michael | title = Disney's Treasure Planet: Treasure Racer | publisher = [[Allgame]] | date = | url = http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:42319 | accessdate = 2008-11-08}}</ref> Another game called ''Treasure Planet'' was released for the [[Game Boy Advance]] in December.<ref name="gba">{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Treasure Planet | publisher = [[Metacritic]] | date = | url = http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/gba/treasureplanet | accessdate = 2008-11-08}}</ref>
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* ''[[Treasure Island in Outer Space]]'' (''Il Pianeta Del Tesoro'' or ''Treasure Planet''), an Italian/German 1987 live action adaptation of the classic novel with similar setting.
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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. It is the 43rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. 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.[2][3] The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation.

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. 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 musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik. 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.[1] It was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Plot

The film's prologue depicts Jim Hawkins as a three-year-old (voiced by Austin Majors) reading a storybook in bed. Jim is enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear in order to hide the loot on the mysterious "Treasure Planet". Twelve years later, Jim (now voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has grown into an aloof and alienated teenager. He is shown begrudgingly helping his mother Sarah (Laurie Metcalf) run an inn and deriving amusement from "solar surfing" (a hybrid of skysurfing and windsurfing atop a board attached to a solar-powered rocket), a pastime that frequently gets him in trouble.

One day, a spaceship crashes near the inn. The dying pilot, Billy Bones (Patrick McGoohan), gives Jim a sphere and tells him to "beware the cyborg". Shortly thereafter, a gang of pirates raid and burn the inn. Jim, his mother, and their dog-like friend Dr. Delbert Doppler (David Hyde Pierce) barely escape. The sphere turns out to be a holographic projector, showing a map that Jim realizes leads to Treasure Planet.

Doppler commissions a ship called RLS Legacy, on a mission to find Treasure Planet. The ship is commanded by the cat-like, sharp-witted Captain Amelia (Emma Thompson) along with her stony-skinned and disciplined First Mate, Mr. Arrow (Roscoe Lee Browne). The crew is a motley bunch, secretly led by cook John Silver (Brian Murray), whom Jim suspects is the cyborg of whom he was warned. Jim is sent down to work in the galley, where he is supervised by Silver and his shape-shifting pet, Morph (Dane A. Davis). Despite Jim's mistrust of Silver, they soon form a tenuous father-son relationship (a montage featuring the song "I'm Still Here" shows Jim and the cyborg bonding over various sailing chores, interspersed with flashbacks from Jim's childhood, during which his father appears indifferent to him and finally leaves without warning when Jim is a pre-teen). During an encounter with a supernova, Silver falls overboard but is saved by Jim. The supernova then devolves into a black hole, where Arrow drifts overboard and is lost, for which Jim blames himself for failing to secure the lifelines, while in fact Arrow's line was cut by a ruthless insectoid crew member named Scroop (Michael Wincott).

As the ship reaches Treasure Planet, mutiny erupts, led by Silver. Jim, Doppler, Amelia, and Morph abandon the ship, accidentally leaving the map behind. Silver, who believes that Jim has the map, has a chance to kill Jim, but refuses to do so because of his attachment to the boy. The fugitives are shot down by a mutineer during their escape, causing injury to Amelia.

While exploring Treasure Planet's forests, the fugitives meet B.E.N. (Martin Short), an abandoned, whimsical robot who claims to have lost most of his memory and invites them to his house to care for the wounded Amelia. The pirates corner the group here; using a back-door, Jim, B.E.N., and Morph return to the ship in an attempt to recover the map. Scroop, aboard the ship as lookout, stalks and fights Jim. B.E.N., working to sabotage the ship's artillery, accidentally turns off the artificial gravity, whereupon Jim and Scroop threaten to float off into space. Jim grabs the mast while Scroop becomes entangled in the flag and cuts himself free while Scroop floats away, presumably to his death. Jim and B.E.N. obtain the map. Upon their return, they are captured by Silver, who has already captured, bound, and gagged Doppler and Amelia.

When Jim is forced to use the map, the group finds their way to a portal that can be opened to any place in the universe; this being the means by which Flint conducted his raids. The treasure is at the center of the planet, accessible only via the portal. Treasure Planet is revealed to be a large space station built by unknown architects and commandeered by Flint. In the stash of treasure, Jim comes across the skeletal remains of Flint himself, holding a missing part of B.E.N's cognitive computer. Jim replaces this piece, causing B.E.N. to remember that the planet is set to explode upon the treasure's discovery. In the ensuing catastrophe, in which two of the pirates fall down into the lava and the others escape Silver finds himself torn between holding onto a literal boat-load of gold and saving Jim, who hangs from a precipice after a fall. Silver saves Jim, and the group escapes to the Legacy, which is damaged and lacks the motive power required to leave the planet in time to escape. Jim attaches a rocket to a narrow plate of metal and rides it toward the portal to open it to a new location while Doppler pilots the ship behind him. Jim manages to open the portal to his home world's spaceport, through which all escape the destruction of Treasure Planet.

After the escape, Amelia has the surviving pirates imprisoned aboard the ship and offers to recommend Jim to the Interstellar Academy for his heroic actions. Silver sneaks below deck, where Jim finds him preparing his escape. Jim lets him go, and Silver asks Jim to keep Morph. Silver predicts that Jim will "rattle the stars", then tosses him a handful of jewels and gold he had taken from Treasure Planet to pay for rebuilding the inn. The film ends with a party at the rebuilt inn, showing Doppler and Amelia now married with children, and Jim a military cadet. He looks to the skies and sees an image of Silver in the clouds.

Cast

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jim Hawkins
  • Brian Murray as John Sliver
  • Emma Thompson as Captain Amelia
  • Michael Wincott as Scroop
  • David Hyde Pierce as Delbert Doppler
  • Dane A. Davis as Morph
  • Laurie Metcalf as Sarah
  • Martin Short as B.E.N.
  • Roscoe Lee Browne as Mr Arrow
  • Patrick McGoohan as Billy Bones
  • Corey Burton as Onus
  • Michael McShane as Hands
  • Austin Majors as Young Jim
  • Tony Jay as Narrator

Additional Voices

  • Jack Angel as Grewnge, Police Robot 2
  • Rodger Bumpass as Turnbuckle, Police Robot 1
  • Jane Carr as Mrs. Dunwitty
  • John Cygan as Hedley
  • Patrick Pinney as Crex
  • Paul Eiding as Verne
  • Phil Proctor as Blinko, Pirates
  • Jeremy Suarez as Ethan, Little Alien Kid
  • Jim Ward as Torrance
  • Mona Marshall as Alien Mother
  • Bob Bergen as Robot on ladder, Mr. Snuff
  • Jennifer Darling as Female Alien
  • Sherry Lynn as Dogbreath
  • Mickie McGowan as Bird Brain Mary

Uncredited

  • Dee Bradley Baker as Favyoon, Longbourne, Mertock
  • Peter Cullen as Captain Nathaniel Flint

Production

Development

Treasure Planet took roughly four and a half years to create, but the concept for Treasure Planet (which was called "Treasure Island in Space" at the time) was originally pitched by Ron Clements in 1985 during the meeting wherein he and John Musker also pitched The Little Mermaid.[4][5] Clements stated that Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was the chief of Walt Disney Studios at the time, "just wasn't interested" in the idea.[6] Since Musker and Clements wanted to be able to move "the camera around a lot like Steven Spielberg or James Cameron," the delay in production was beneficial since "the technology had time to develop in terms of really moving the camera."[7] Principal animation for the film began in 2000 with roughly 350 crew members working on it.[8] In 2002, Roy Conli estimated that there were around 1,027 crew members listed in the screen credits with "about four hundred artists and computer artists, about a hundred and fifty musicians and another two hundred technologists".[4]

According to Conli, Clements wanted to create a space world that was "warm and had more life to it than you would normally think of in a science fiction film", as opposed to the "stainless steel, blue, smoke coming from the bowels of heavily pipe laden" treatment of science fiction.[4] In order to make the film "fun" by creating more exciting action sequences and because they believed that having the characters wear space suits and helmets "would take all the romance out of it",[9] the crew created the concept of the "Etherium," an "outer space filled with atmosphere".[5][10]

Several changes were made late in the production to the film. The prologue of the film originally featured an adult Jim Hawkins narrating the story of Captain Flint in first person,[5][11] but the crew considered this to be too "dark" and felt that it lacked character involvement.[5] The crew also intended for the film to include a sequence showing Jim working on his solar surfer and interacting with an alien child, which was intended to show Jim's more sensitive side and as homage to The Catcher in the Rye.[12] Because of the intention to begin the film with a scene of Jim solar surfing, the sequence had to be cut.[12]

Writing

Writer Rob Edwards stated that "it was extremely challenging" to take a classic novel and set it in outer space, and that they did away with some of the science fiction elements ("things like the metal space ships and the coldness") early on. Edwards goes on to say that they "did a lot of things to make the film more modern" and that the idea behind setting the film in outer space was to "make the story as exciting for kids now as the book was for kids then".[13]

With regard to adapting the characters from the book to film, Ron Clements mentioned that the Jim Hawkins in the book is a "a very smart, very capable kid", but they wanted to make Jim start out as "a little troubled kid" who "doesn't really know who he is" while retaining the aforementioned characteristics from the original character. The "mentor figures" for Jim Hawkins in the novel were Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey, whom John Musker described as "one is more comic and the other's very straight"; these two characters were fused into Dr. Doppler. Clements also mentions that though the father-son relationship between Jim Hawkins and John Silver was present "to some degree" in the book, they wanted to emphasize it more in the film.[14]

Casting

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Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins examine the planetary map. Silver's cyborg arm was created with computer animation.

Casting director Ruth Lambert held a series of casting auditions for the film in New York, Los Angeles and London, but the crew already had some actors in mind for two of the major characters.[15] The character of Dr. Doppler was written with David Hyde Pierce in mind,[4][14] and Pierce was given a copy of the Treasure Planet script along with preliminary sketches of the character and the film's scenic elements while he was working on A Bug's Life. He stated that "the script was fantastic, the look was so compelling" that he accepted the role.[16] Likewise, the character of Captain Amelia was developed with the idea that Emma Thompson would be providing her voice.[17] "We offered it to her and she was really excited," Clements said. Musker said, "This is the first action adventure character that Emma has ever played and she was pregnant during several of the sessions. She was happy that she could do all this action and not have to train for the part"[17] There were no actors initially in mind for the characters of John Silver and Jim Hawkins; Brian Murray (John Silver) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Jim Hawkins) were signed after months of auditions.[4] Gordon-Levitt stated that he was attracted to the role because "it's a Disney animated movie and Disney animated movies are in a class by themselves," and that "to be part of that tradition is unbelievable to me".[18] Musker mentioned that Gordon-Levitt "combined enough vulnerability and intelligence and a combination of youthfulness but incompleteness" and that they liked his approach.[14]

Among the lead actors, only Pierce had experience with voice acting prior to the making of Treasure Planet. Conli explained that they were looking for "really the natural voice of the actor", and that sometimes it was better to have an actor with no experience with voice work as he utilizes his natural voice instead of "affecting a voice".[4] The voice sessions were mostly done without any interaction with the other actors,[14][16] but Gordon-Levitt expressed a desire to interact with Brian Murray because he found it difficult to act out most of the scenes between Jim Hawkins and John Silver alone.[14]

Design and animation

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An illustration by N.C. Wyeth titled One More Step, Mr. Hands for a 1911 publication of Treasure Island. This type of illustration, which was described by the film crew as "classic storybook illustration," was the basis for Treasure Planet's overall look.

While designing for Treasure Planet, the crew operated on rule they call the "70/30 Law" (an idea that art director Andy Gaskill has credited to Ron Clements), which meant that the overall look of the film's artwork should be 70% traditional and 30% sci-fi.[19] The overall look of Treasure Planet was based on the art style promoted by illustrators associated with the Brandywine School of Illustration (such as Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth), whose illustrations have been described by the film's crew as being the "classic storybook illustration," having a painterly feel to it, and being composed of a warm color palette.[20] The animators took Deep Canvas, a technology which they had initially developed for Tarzan, and came up with a process they called "Virtual Sets," wherein they created entire 360 degree sets before they began staging the scenes.[4] They combined this process with traditionally-drawn characters in order to achieve a "painted image with depth perception" and enabled the crew to place the camera anywhere in the set and maneuver it as they would maneuver a camera for a live-action film.[8] In order to test how a computer-generated body part (specifically John Silver's cyborg arm) would mesh with a traditionally animated character, the crew took a clip of Captain Hook from Peter Pan and replaced his arm with the cyborg arm.[21]

There were around forty animators on the crew, and were further divided into teams; for example, sixteen animators were assigned to Jim Hawkins because he appeared on the screen the most, and twelve were assigned to John Silver. To ensure "solidity" in illustration and personality, each major character in the film had a team of animators led by one supervisor. Conli mentioned that the personalities of the supervisors affect the final character, citing Glen Keane (the supervisor for John Silver) as well as John Ripa (the supervisor for Jim Hawkins) as examples. The physical appearance, movements, and facial expressions of the voice actors were infused into the characters as well.[4]

When asked if they drew inspiration from the previous film adaptations of Treasure Island for the character designs, Glen Keane stated that he disliked looking at previous portrayals of the character in order to "clear his mind of stereotypes", but that he drew some inspiration for the manner by which Silver spoke from actor Wallace Beery, whom he "loved because of the way he talked out of the side of his mouth." For the characterization and design for Jim Hawkins, John Ripa cited James Dean as an important reference because "there was a whole attitude, a posture" wherein "you felt the pain and the youthful innocence", and he also cited the film Braveheart because "there are a lot of close-ups on characters...who are going through thought processes, just using their eyes."[22]

Animators also used maquettes, small statues of the characters in the film, as references throughout the animation process. Character sculptor Kent Melton mentioned that the first Disney film to use maquettes was Pinocchio, and that this paved the way to the formation of an entire department devoted to character sculpting. Keane noted that maquettes are not just supposed to be "like a mannequin in a store", but rather has to be "something that tells you [the character's] personality" and that maquettes also helped inspire the way actors would portray their roles.[23]

Audio

This "70/30 Law" was not only applied to the visual designs for the film, but also for the sound effects and music. Sound designer Dane Davis mentioned that he and his team "scoured hobby shops and junk stores for antique windup toys and old spinning mechanisms" in order to create the sound effects for John Silver to "avoid sounding slick or sci-fi". The team did some experimentation with the sound used in dialogues, especially with the robot B.E.N., but opted to keep the actor's (Martin Short's) natural voice because everything they tried "affected his comedy", and "the last thing you want to do in a story like this is affect performances".[24]

The music from the film is largely orchestral in nature, although it includes two moderately successful pop singles ("I'm Still Here" and "Always Know Where You Are") from The Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik and British pop-rock group, BBMak. Both songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik in the film, but BBMak recorded "Always Know Where You Are" for the soundtrack. The score was composed by James Newton Howard, who said that the score is "very much in the wonderful tradition of Korngold and Tiomkin and Steiner."[25] The score has been described as a mixture of modern music in the spirit of Star Wars and Celtic music.[26][27] Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser is credited as the co-composer of the track "Silver Leaves",[28] and is also listed as a soloist in the film's credits. Walt Disney Records released the film's soundtrack album on November 19, 2002.[28]

Marketing

Prior to and during its theatrical run, Treasure Planet had promotional support from McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola, Dreyer's, and Kellogg Company. McDonald's included promotional items such as action figures and puzzles in their Happy Meals and Mighty Meals, Pepsi-Cola placed promotional film graphics onto the packaging of a number of their soft drinks (Mountain Dew, Code Red Sierra Mist, Mug Root Beer, Orange Slice and Lipton Brisk), Dreyer's used their delivery truck panels to promote ice cream flavors inspired by the film (such as "Galactic Chocolate" and "Vanilla Treasure"), and Kellog included film-branded spoons in their cereal boxes.[29] Hasbro also released a line-up of Treasure Planet action figures and toys.[29][30][31]

Release

Theatrical premiere

Treasure Planet held its world premiere at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on November 17, 2002,[32][33] though it was also screened in Paris, France on November 6, 2002.[34] The film is "the first major studio feature" to be released in regular and IMAX theaters simultaneously; this was done in the light of the success of Disney films that were re-released in IMAX format, such as Fantasia 2000 and Beauty and the Beast.[2] Dick Cook, chairman of Walt Disney Studio Entertainment, also mentioned that the simultaneous release was a good way to distinguish themselves during the competitive holiday season.[6]

Theatrical Cut scenes

There are few scenes from Treasure Planet was cut from the film. The scene is Delbert calling out to Jim and Scroop licking a purp juice. This would never appear in the film when they removed it for children. During production of Treasure Planet and wallpapers of the film. Amelia's hair changed color from orange to black. When it almost finished, her hair is orange.

Critical reaction

Treasure Planet received generally positive reviews from film critics and (as of April 19, 2024) retains a 70% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2.5 stars out of 4. While not completely writing off the film, he felt that a more traditional take on the film would have been "more exciting" and "less gimmicky".[35] Andy Klein of Daily Variety Gotham complained about the script, describing it as "listless" and remarked, "If only its script were as amusing as its visuals."[26] A. O. Scott of The New York Times described the film as "less an act of homage than a clumsy and cynical bit of piracy", and went on to say that it is "not much of a movie at all" and a "brainless, mechanical picture".[36] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly described the film as "all cutesy updated fripperies and zero momentum."[37]

There were also many critics who praised the film, including Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post, who stated that the film "boasts the purest of Disney raptures: It unites the generations, rather than driving them apart".[38] Leah Rozen of People stated that the film "has imagination, humor aplenty and moves briskly", and that "the animation, combining traditional and digital techniques, is ravishing."[39] Claudia Puig of USA Today said that the film's most noteworthy feature is "the artful way it combines the futuristic and the retro", and went on to say that the film doesn't have the "charm of Lilo & Stitch" nor the "dazzling artistry of Spirited Away", but concluded that Treasure Planet is "a capable and diverting holiday season adventure for a family audience."[40] Kim Hollis of Box Office Prophets stated that "there's plenty to recommend the film – the spectacular visuals alone make Treasure Planet a worthwhile watch," though expressing disappointment because she felt that the characters were "not all that creatively rendered".[41]

Box office

The film was an American box office bomb,[42][43] grossing only $38 million in the United States and Canada and $110 million worldwide.[1] Consequently, Disney's Buena Vista Distribution arm reduced its fourth-quarter earnings by $47 million within a few days of the film's release.[44][45]

Home video

Treasure Planet was released in DVD and VHS format in the United States and Canada on April 29, 2003. The DVD includes behind-the-scenes featurettes, a visual commentary, deleted scenes, teaser and theatrical trailers, the music video for the song "I'm Still Here" by John Rzeznik, and a virtual tour of the RLS Legacy.[46] The DVD retained the number one spot in Billboard's top sales for two weeks[47][48] and the VHS was number one in sales for three weeks.[49][50][51] From April to July 2003, Treasure Planet brought in $64 Million in DVD sales.[52] If this would be added to total revenue, Treasure Planet could be considered a moderate success with total revenues just under $174 Million.

Disney released a 10th Anniversary special edition Blu-ray/DVD combo on July 3, 2012.[53][54]

Awards and nominations

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Spirited Away.[55] It was also nominated for a number of Annie Awards.[56]

Possible sequels

Before Treasure Planet was shown in cinemas, Thomas Schumacher, then president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, mentioned the possibilities of having direct-to-video releases for Treasure Planet as well as a television series. He stated that they already had "a story and some storyboards and concepts up and a script for what a sequel to [Treasure Planet] could be," and that they also had a "notion" of what the series would be.[57]

Video games

Several Treasure Planet video games were released in 2002. Disney Interactive released the naval strategy game Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon for the PC in October,[58] while Sony Computer Entertainment America released a Treasure Planet action video game for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 in November.[59] A series of games collectively called Disney's Treasure Planet: Training Academy was also released in 2002. It was composed of three games (Broadside Blast, Treasure Racer, and Etherium Rescue), and players with all three games could unlock a fourth game (Ship Shape).[60] Another game called Treasure Planet was released for the Game Boy Advance in December.[61]

See also

Portal Treasure Planet portal


  • Treasure Island in Outer Space (Il Pianeta Del Tesoro or Treasure Planet), an Italian/German 1987 live action adaptation of the classic novel with similar setting.

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