Overview
- MGM+ in the U.S. and Paramount+ in the U.K. & Ireland have commissioned a six-episode adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic.
- Filming started in March 2026 in Spain with production services from Ánima Stillking, and no premiere date has been announced.
- David Oyelowo leads as Long John Silver alongside Hayley Atwell as Bess Hawkins, Jack Huston as Aaron Graham, Tomer Capone as Billy Bones, and Tom Sweet as Jim Hawkins.
- The series was created for television by Robert Murphy and is directed by Jeremy Lovering, William McGregor, and Paul Walker, with Playground producing and Mark Hedges as producer.
- Billed as a bold coming-of-age adventure, the story centers on Jim Hawkins’ perilous voyage aboard the Hispaniola across an Atlantic world that includes a Caribbean on the brink of revolution.