So Disney has gone and jazzed up Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island by changing “Island” to “Planet”. Where could they possibly have gotten such an idea???
Go here and scroll down to #5:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/1548/spinoff.html
Coming Soon: Disney’s Anna Karenina
Anna, a sweet but feisty girl, leaves her evil sorcerer husband Karenin and goes to live in a forest glade with her talking chipmunk, Vronski. Much lighthearted zaniness and tearjerking musical numbers ensue, till Karenin finally falls beneath the wheels of a train, leaving Anna and her furry forest friends to frolic and sing their way into the sunset. Meg Ryan provides the voice of Anna; with Robin Williams as Vronski and Rupert Everett as Karenin.
ROTFL
From a novel called Godspeed by Charles Sheffield. I’ll get you the title later today if you care. It was a damned fun novel as Sheffield was just having serious fun doing Treasure Island in Space as a Heinlein-esque juvie.
They won’t credit him, of course, any more than the credited Zenna Henderson for their obscene swipe of several of her “People” stories for the “Witch Mountain” movies.
I hope Sheffield’s estate* sues Disney’s asses off.
Fenris
*He just died
Or, I’ll remember the title and put it in the above post, but forget to remove the earlier line.
Or the later line, even.
A link to the author’s description of the book can be found here
Actually, it’s a pretty cool idea. Pirates! In space! Rock!
Er. Fenris, Disney didn’t steal the idea from this Sheffield guy. They both stole the idea from Robert Louis Stevenson. And Disney acknowledges that at least.
How hard is it to come up with the idea of “Pirates in Space?”
I have to admit it, this movie looks kinda cool. I’ll probably go see it (and probably be disappointed, too) but hey, there are few enough pirate movies as it is, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Won’t be cooler than Muppet Treasure Island, but i may still go see this one.
Statler: “Take a cruise,” you said! “See the world,” you said! Now here we are, stuck on the front of this stupid ship!
Waldorf: Well, it could be worse. We could be stuck in the audience!
I hate to be the spoilsport to mention that this wasn’t a Disney movie.
Duh, Euty, that’s why she said “Coming Soon.”
LMAO, Eve. 
I think Eutychus is refering to Anastasia which is the probable basis for Eve’s amusing post.
Um, no, the probable basis for Eve’s amusing post was the way Disney feels free to hack away at literature to “Disney-fy” it. Today, Treasure Planet, heck, tomorrow why not Anna Karenina?
Nuthin’ to do with Anastasia.
I dunno, given the fact that Eve had Meg Ryan be the voice of Anna I’m suspecting that she was refering at least in part to Anastasia .
Of course Disney does do horrible things to stories coughHunchbackofnotredamecough.
When I heard about “Treasure Planet,” my first thought was to recall when the animated show “Gilligan’s Planet” popped up on Saturday morning television.
Anastasia wasn’t Disney, it was one of Fox’s wannabe-disney efforts.
The only thing worse than bad Disney is bad Disney imitations.
Vis: The Swan Princess or Thumbelina. Muddled stories, incoherent secondary and background characters, and just ugly and clumsy animation.
I just thought I’d point out that Disney has done Treasure Island previously. (a couple of times) As much as I like the muppets I still like the live action version of my childhood. (actually in my childhood it was a re-issue)
I will not rest until I see this fantabulous Disney treatment hit the screen.