Treasure Island (1999 film) Treasure Island (1999 film) Treasure Island is a 1999 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It was written and directed by Peter Rowe and stars Kevin Zegers as Jim Hawkins and Jack Palance as Long John Silver. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim, a 13-year old boy, out of his rightful share of the treasure in 1759. and so Jim then teams up with Silver. Smollett, Trelawney and Livesey are killed, and Jim, Silver and Ben Gunn escape with the treasure. The film was
Treasure Island M. Lopez wrote, "MS Found in a Bottle" (1833) and the intriguing tale of buried treasure, "The Gold-Scar" (1843). All of these works influenced Stevenson's end product. Specifically, however, Stevenson consciously borrowed material from previous authors. In a July 1884 letter to Anthony M. Lopez, he writes ""Treasure Island" came out of Kingsley's "At Last," where I got the Dead Man's Chest—and that was the seed—and out of the great Captain Johnson's "History of the Notorious Pirates."" Stevenson also admits that he took the idea of Captain Flint's pointing skeleton from Poe's "The Gold-Bug", and he constructed Billy Bones' history