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Jim Hawkins lives with his mother Sarah at their inn on Montressor, where he is seen as a teenager with no future. A dying pirate named Billy Bones crashes nearby, presses a sphere into Jim's hands and tells him to beware a cyborg. Pirates come looking for the sphere and wreck the inn. Jim escapes with his mother and Dr. Delbert Doppler, and at Doppler's observatory they learn the sphere holds a holographic map to Treasure Planet and the hoard that the pirate Captain Nathaniel Flint hid there long ago. Doppler charters a ship, the RLS Legacy, under the feline captain Amelia, with Mr. Arrow as her first mate. In the galley Jim works under the ship's cook, John Silver, and the two grow close as the ship heads out.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Treasure Planet (2002)
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- The concept, then called Treasure Island in Space, was pitched by Ron Clements back in 1985 at the "Gong Show" meeting where he and John Musker also pitched The Little Mermaid; Michael Eisner rejected it because Paramount was developing a Star Trek sequel with a Treasure Island angle.
- The idea was rejected a third time by studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, who "just wasn't interested," until Feature Animation chairman Roy E. Disney intervened with Eisner on the filmmakers' behalf and got the project approved.
- Patrick McGoohan was cast as Billy Bones after co-star Corey Burton suggested him following an impression Burton did of him for a temp track; the role turned out to be the last film role of McGoohan's career.
- A sequel was in early development, with Gordon-Levitt and Murray set to reprise Hawkins and Silver and Willem Dafoe voicing the villain Ironbeard, but it was canceled when Treasure Planet did poorly at the box office.
- Disneyland had planned to re-theme its Submarine Voyage ride around Treasure Planet, but scrapped the idea after the film flopped; the attraction reopened in 2007 as the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage instead.
- Its failure became apparent early on, as Disney's Buena Vista Distribution arm reduced its fourth-quarter earnings by $47 million within a few days of the film's release.
