This Disney Animated Sci-Fi Movie Is A New Twist On A Literary Classic
The creators at Walt Disney Animation Studios have produced some of the most iconic and beloved animated films of all time, from Cinderella to Beauty and the Beast to Tangled, and even last year’s Encanto. However, not all of Disney’s animated movies have enjoyed equal time in the limelight — while some are masterpieces that have become a fixture of pop culture, there’s also been a fair share of films that failed to make a splash on release.
Many of Disney’s films in the 2000s, in the era following the Disney Renaissance of the 90s, failed to win the same acclaim as their predecessors like The Lion King or Mulan. But while there’s little love these days for the likes of Dinosaur, Home on the Range,or Bolt, movies like The Emperor’s New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Meet The Robinsons have gone on to become cult classics, due in no small part to the generation who grew up with these films sharing their love on the internet. And 2002’s sci-fi adventure Treasure Planet is no exception to this phenomenon.
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Treasure Planet is the brainchild of Ron Clements and John Musker, the writer-director duo behind such films as The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and more recently The Princess and the Frog and Moana. The idea began as a simple one: an adaptation of the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, but with a sci-fi twist. Clements and Musker began pitching the idea to Disney all the way back in the 80s, under the working title Treasure Island in Space. However, their passion project was turned down time and time again, until the film was finally greenlit following the release of Hercules.
The premise of Treasure
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