‘Treasure Island’ Inspired Movie To Be Directed By Dean DeBlois

How to Train Your Dragon directorDean DeBlois has been hired byUniversal Pictures andMandeville Films to helm a movie inspired byR.L. Stevenson’s novelTreasure Island.

Working with DeBlois to write the screenplay isEvan Spiliotopoulous, who wrote the script forBeauty and the Beast.

DeBlois will make his first live-action feature film forParamount/Hasbro in 2021. That means that theTreasure Islandproject, which is still in the early stages of development, will start production afterward.

The book which was written byRobert Louis Stevenson in 1881 is set in the era of sailing ships and pirates and tells the story of Jim Hawkins, a boy who searches for a buried treasure.

Dean DeBloisis a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator best known for co-writing and co-directing theOscar-nominated animated filmsLilo& Stitch forDisney, and theHow to Train Your Dragonfilm trilogy forDreamWorks Animation.