Hugh Jackman in the next Ridley Scott

A little over ten years after playing the pirate captain Blackbeard in Joe Wright's Peter Pan prequel, the Australian actor is preparing to step into the boots of one of the most famous fictional pirates in all of literature. As an added bonus, the screenplay will be written by Jack Thorne, Emmy Award-winning writer for the series Adolescence. The Pirate Imagination by Robert Louis Stevenson. As a reminder, Treasure Island is a coming-of-age story set in the 18th century. The story follows young Jim Hawkins, who discovers a map leading to Captain Flint's lost treasure and embarks on a perilous voyage aboard the Hispaniola. On the ship, Jim and the crew must confront a mutiny led by the cunning one-legged cook, Long John Silver. But they eventually thwart the pirates' plans and get their hands on the gold. The work has shaped much of the pirate imagination, from the treasure map marked with an "X" to the one-legged pirate with a parrot perched on his shoulder. A novel in every sense of the word. The novel has been adapted for the screen many times, although the most recent English-language adaptations date back to 1999 and then to Disney's Treasure Planet in 2002. More recently, the excellent pirate series Black Sails, broadcast on Starz, served as a prequel to this story. Now we just have to hope that Ridley Scott will be more inspired than he was for Gladiator II.