Treasure Planet
Treasure Planet is the 42nd animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released on November 27, 2002 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. The film is a science fiction retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island. It was produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker from a screenplay by Musker, Clements, and Rob Edwards. The film features music by James Newton Howard, and two songs by Johnny Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls. The film was the least successful of Disney's animated features and ranks as one of, if not 'the', biggest "box office bombs" of all time.
The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation. A similar dichotomy was used for the character of the cyborg John Silver: his natural body is hand-animated, but his mechanical arm and eye are computer animated. This was a similar technique to that used by an earlier film, Titan A.E..
It is the first film ever to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters.
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