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.

Cast

 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jim Hawkins.
 * Brian Murray as Long John Sliver.
 * Emma Thompson as Captain Amelia.
 * David Hyde Pierce as Doctor Delbert Doppler
 * Martin Short as B.E.N
 * Michael Wincott as Scroop
 * Laurie Metcalf as Sarah Hawkins
 * Roscoe Lee Browne as Mr. Arrow
 * Patrick McGoohan as Billy Bones
 * Austin Majors as Young Jim
 * Corey Burton as Onus
 * Michael McShane as Hands
 * Tony Jay as Narrator
 * Rodger Bumpass and Jack Angel as Robocops
 * Jane Carr as Mrs. Dunwitty
 * Mickie McGowan as Birdbrian Mary
 * Phil Proctor as Meltdown
 * Jeremy Suarez as Little Alien Kid
 * Jeremy Suarez also voiced Ethan. This was shown on the deleted scene on the DVD release.

Additional Voices

 * Jack Angel - Pirates, Schwartzkopf
 * Bob Bergen
 * John Cygan
 * Jennifer Darling
 * Paul Eiding - Greedy, Captain Flint
 * Sherry Lynn
 * Mona Marshall
 * Patrick Pinney
 * Jim Ward

Trivia

 * Alan Silvestri was going to score the film, but working on Lilo & Stitch will get James Newton Howard to do the score.
 * The teaser trailer was shown in screenings of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
 * Little Alien Kid is voiced by Jeremy Suarez who later voiced Koda in Brother Bear.