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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has attached Guy Ritchie to direct a new version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s pirate tale Treasure Island, and has set Alex Harakis to write the script. Ritchie will produce the film with his partner Lionel Wigram and Langley Park’s Kevin McCormick. It was Wigram who originally set up a stylized version of the classic novel, much the way he did Sherlock Holmes, which Ritchie directed. He set it up before he and Ritchie became partners. Their first move after partnering was to take on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., after Steven Soderbergh dropped out of the film. UTA and Magnet Management rep Harakis.
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One word. Gross
Don’t you mean be the 3rd writer on a project that has been in development for a couple years?
As a development exec who’s always been a fan of Alex Harakis, it’s great to see him getting a high-profile gig like this. He’s incredibly talented.
If you are a development exec and a fan of any writer (or even just movies), then quit your job and encourage all other development execs to do the same.
Development Execs are killing this business.
Yikes. What does that even mean? If I work for a producer who has no time to read what I read, who’s going to recommend writers and projects to them, thereby giving unknown writers a chance to work and obscure scripts a shot at getting made? What kind of moronic generalization is that statement? Why am I wasting my time responding to it? And by the way, I’m actually also a writer (one who gets paid to write screenplays, most likely, I’m guessing, unlike you), and the development execs I work with have been incredibly helpful at every stage. Go back to your parents’ basement and post about something you understand.
This was a wonderful post until that tacky last line. If only you could have resisted falling to his level.
Ah, it’s the comments section of Deadline. Gotta keep it snarky.
Memo to Warner Bros: how about realizing the original source material is *perfect* and doesn’t need a “re-invention” or a “stylized” adaptation? The book is the definitive adventure story of all time. It’s held up for a reason.
Why must studios bastardize classic material?
Because execs need to see their fingerprints/ideas on things. Execs need to justify their existences, because deep down they know they don’t really DO anything.
Writers, directors, actors, FX artists, and all their brothers and sisters with a CRAFT are all that is needed to make a movie. No movie needs some studio or prod co d-person’s dumb “notes.”
Studio Execs and Prod Co D-Execs are utterly interchangeable drones that are gumming up the whole system. They “oversee” or “steer” which means “meddle” and “ruin.”
Do you even know what a producer does?
Yes, They “oversee” or “steer” which means “meddle” and “ruin.”
what about sherlock holmes 3?
After seeing how Ritchie made the two Sherlock films utterly confusing, color me uninterested.
Dear God I hope not.
Doesn’t anyone else remember the last “reimagining,” Disney’s TREASURE PLANET? Huge writedown, followed by massive exec re-shuffling. Robinov, beware.
Wow, originality really is gone in Hollywood. Hasn’t this already been remade a couple of times?
They are doing this because of Pirates of the Caribbean. Treasure Island is public domain so they don’t have to pay for the rights. I’d much rather see man from uncle that would be great if it’s set in the swinging 60′s.
If a studio exec was really doing his job,he would note all the criticism here and possibly have second thoughts.
Not sure I would get excited about Treasure Island anyway, but it seems an easy way to market a film. book well known already, and some people will go to see it, even if there is little resemblance to the original.This I feel is what Guy Richie did with Sherlock Holmes film.Robert Downeys Holmes bears little resemblance to Conan Doyle’s version, and while that does not matter, it seems to be exploiting rather than re-imagining,
maybe in Hollywood terms those two words mean the same thing.Holmes is just another action hero in those films, and would the two films have been successful if Richie had called his character Johh Smith
or even John Carter.
Could be the same kind of thinking behind this new version of TI, remake something using the book title and names of characters, and rewrite everything else.Many kids would have heard of it,but never read it, and think by seeing it they never will have to think about reading it. put Johnny Depp or someone in, and it becomes an ideal date movie for kids who have other things on their minds than watching movies critically.Purists might be offended but who gives a shit about them as long as the undiscriminating masses pay their money to see it.
Yeah, ’cause the last time Ritchie headed to an island it was a huge success …