Treasure Planet

Treasure Planet is a 2002 American animated science fiction fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002 in the USA and February 14, 2003 in the UK. It is the 43rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The film is a science fiction adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters. The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation.

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 Disney's other animated feature The Little Mermaid, the film is also an animated remake of the 1987 Italian mini-series Treasure Island in Outer Space. Treasure Planet features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Emma Thompson, Michael Wincott, Laurie Metcalf and Patrick McGoohan. The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik.