![]() I don’t really trust him, but I think I like him.” With Long John Silver, you think, “Well, I think I’d be okay having a beer with this guy. In World War II, he made the right decision. He was on the wrong side of the right decision, many times. He was against India getting its freedom. If you look at the history of Churchill, it’s all over the place. He is a greedy man, or a man who has worked hard to steal a lot money, and he feels that he deserves this $500 million, or at least his share of the $500 million. The interesting thing about John Silver is that he has a mixed heart. The vast majority of people respect you, if you’ve got a good heart. IZZARD: It’s all about the indomitable spirit. Why did Churchill help you in understanding who John Silver was? I’m a very determined person, and I like to bring that to my characters. Twenty main characters go out there, and only about four come back, and I wanted Silver to be the engine behind it. We wanted to do a real kick-ass version, as opposed to a campy version, which I think has been done before. That’s the essence of Silver, and that’s the story we wanted to do. We worked out that the treasure was the equivalent of something like $500 million, so imagine what you would do to get $500 million, if it was buried on a treasure island. It’s about the indomitable spirit, which is in that poem. Robert Louis Stevenson based Long John Silver upon a friend of his who was actually an editor and a journalist and a poet that actually wrote the Invictus poem that influenced Nelson Mandela when he was in prison. It’s got all these things that can appeal to people across the ages, and it did in the U.K. What would you do in those situations? It doesn’t end with a Hollywood happy-go-lucky thing. It’s about death and blood and life, and finding yourself. You get caught up in it and it just gets nasty. Could you go and get it? It’s one of those stories. Imagine there is $500 million on the Moon. Going to the Caribbean in those days is like going to the Moon now. So, it’s a story that anyone can identify with. Anyone in their youth can identify with that, even young tomboy girls and women, because he’s not like a big macho man. We worked at it to fight for the soul of Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo). You can get caught by those pirates, and you just do not want that to happen. The Gulf of Aden has all the Somali pirates going around, and we know that it’s hellish down there. I was born in Aden, which is in the city of Yemen, an Arabic country. What do you think the appeal is, of this particular story? Turner Laing said Sky1, Sky Living and Sky Atlantic will have slots 106, 107 and 108 – right after the five main terrestrial channels - so Sky can "highlight for our customers the best of entertainment pay at the top of the EPG".The story of Treasure Island has been made into films many, many times. Sky Atlantic, due to launch early next year, will feature US drama including Mad Men and HBO content such as Martin Scorsese's eagerly-awaited Boardwalk Empire. In a bid to highlight its entertainment credentials, the broadcasterIt is moving Sky1, Sky Living and Sky Atlantic to the top of the Sky Digital electronic programme guide. Sky is not renowned for period dramas, but the broadcaster is planning to boost its investment in original drama by 400% between 2009//12. He doesn't do that much television so we are very excited that he is to play Long John Silver." Sophie Turner Laing, Sky's managing director of entertainment and news, said: "We have Treasure Island in production which stars Eddie Izzard, which is really exciting. One of his most recent public appearances was as the MC at a question and answer session with the new Labour leader, Ed Miliband, at the party's conference last month. Izzard also starred in the US con-artist show The Riches, which ran for two series from 2007. Last year he appeared in BBC1's take on John Wyndham's science-fiction novel The Day of the Triffids. ![]() With his sell-out stand-up shows and subsequent DVD sales, Izzard can afford to pick and choose his TV roles. Izzard should be used to limping after running 43 marathons in 51 days around the UK last year for Sport Relief. Others who have played him on film and TV include Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Brian Blessed, Robert Newton and Peter Vaughan. It will be the first live-action adaptation of the novel for British TV since the BBC's version in the 1970s, starring Alfred Burke as Long John Silver. The two-part, four-hour family drama is to be broadcast at Christmas in 2012. Production is due to begin next month, with filming in Ireland and Puerto Rico.
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