Some release dates are routine calendar housekeeping. Then Sony drops Ridley Scott and Hugh Jackman on a pirate movie and suddenly the whole industry is paying attention. This week the studio confirmed that its new take on Treasure Island will hit theaters on November 11, 2027, anchoring a late-year one-two punch alongside the newly dated 24 Jump Street.
It is the newest major announcement on the board, and frankly the most interesting one. Scott, at 88, keeps choosing projects like a man with half his career ahead of him. Jackman keeps picking roles that dare people to underestimate him. Put them together on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel and you get the kind of old-school movie event that doesn’t come around often anymore.
What Sony actually confirmed
The details that are locked in: Scott directs and produces. Jackman leads the cast. The screenplay comes from Jack Thorne, who co-created Netflix’s acclaimed Adolescence and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The cast also includes Hugh Grant and Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper, whose roles have not been specified yet.
The story is the one every schoolkid knows. A young boy finds a map to a legendary buried treasure, sets out on a perilous sea voyage, and ends up locked in a battle of wits with the charismatic, treacherous Long John Silver. Different outlets disagree on exactly which pirate Jackman is playing, with some naming Silver and others Blackbeard, so we will wait for Sony’s official word on that. What is certain is that this is a serious, grown-up treatment. Forget the felt pirates. The Muppets had their turn.
Why this pairing matters
Scott does not make small pictures, and he does not make them for long. His filmography is a wall of epics: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Napoleon. He shoots fast, he builds worlds you can smell, and he has a particular gift for making history feel like it is happening right now, with dirt under its fingernails.
Jackman, for his part, has spent the back half of his career proving range is not a rumor. Wolverine made him a star; The Greatest Showman made him a song-and-dance man; Logan made him an actor critics had to take seriously. A pirate role under Scott’s direction gives him a stage big enough for all of it. He has played a pirate before, in 2015’s Pan, but that was a cartoon villain in a cartoon movie. This sounds like something else entirely.
And then there is Thorne. Hiring the man who wrote Adolescence, one of the most talked-about television events of 2025, tells you Sony wants this to be a character piece with a pulse, not a theme-park ride with sails. The best pirate stories were always about greed and loyalty wearing costumes. Thorne knows how to write that.
The pirate competition
Here is the wrinkle. Scott’s Treasure Island will not be the only version in town. A six-part series starring Hayley Atwell, with David Oyelowo as Long John Silver, is headed to streaming this October via MGM+ and Paramount+. That puts more than a year between the two adaptations, and honestly, the contrast could help both. Television does the slow burn. Scott does the spectacle. Audiences who binge the series in October will be primed for the big screen version in November 2027.
It is also worth noting the calendar company Sony is keeping. 24 Jump Street lands December 10, 2027, with Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube reportedly returning and Rodney Rothman directing. Two wildly different films, one month apart: pirate epic, then self-aware comedy sequel. That is a studio with confidence.
The bottom line
We are more than a year out, and plenty can change. Productions shift, dates move, casts evolve. But the bones of this are strong: a master director, a star at the height of his powers, a writer with genuine literary chops, and one of the great adventure stories ever written. If you only follow one 2027 release date, make it this one.
Until November 2027, there are plenty of adventures closer to home. This week’s lineup of books, jazz, salsa and night markets will keep any explorer busy, and the city’s 2026 holiday tree and lights celebrations are already on the calendar. Yo ho ho, indeed.
