During an encounter with a supernova, Silver falls overboard but is saved by Jim. 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). Jim is sent down to work in the galley, where he is supervised by Silver and his shape-shifting pet, Morph (Dane A. 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. The ship is commanded by the cat-like, sharp-witted Captain Amelia ( Emma Thompson) along with her stony-skinned and disciplined First Mate, Mr. The sphere turns out to be a holographic projector, showing a map that Jim realizes leads to Treasure Planet.ĭoppler commissions a ship called RLS Legacy (a nod to the author of the original story), on a mission to find Treasure Planet. Delbert Doppler ( David Hyde Pierce) barely escape. Jim, his mother, and their dog-like friend Dr. Shortly thereafter, a gang of pirates raid and burn the inn. The dying pilot, Billy Bones ( Patrick McGoohan), gives Jim a sphere and tells him to "beware the cyborg". One day, a spaceship crashes near the inn. 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 sail-powered rocket), a pastime that frequently gets him in trouble. Twelve years later, Jim (now voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has grown into an aloof and alienated teenager.
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". Set in the future, the film's prologue depicts Jim Hawkins as a five-year-old (voiced by Austin Majors) reading a storybook in bed. 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 is also an animated remake of the 1987 Italian mini-series Treasure Island in Outer Space. 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. 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.