Treasure Island Trilogy planned

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An unnamed Qatari film producer is in talks to finance a $150m movie trilogy based on children’s classic Treasure Island.

The three film project already has a script and a director attached. Filming is scheduled to begin in November this year and casting is underway, with Robert Downey Jr – star of the blockbusters Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes - top of the filmmakers’ wish list to play villain Long John Silver.

“We have somebody in Qatar at the moment who is a very experienced producer of multi-million dollar pictures and we are involved in setting up a franchise based on Treasure Island, which would be a key picture deal,” Douglas Rae, managing director and executive producer of Ecosse Films, told Arabian Business.

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