Ridley Scott wants "the kid from Adolescence" for his Treasure Island movie

This is per Collider‘s recent interview with Scott, where he confirmed that he’s currently in casting for Treasure Island, which he’s now formally set as his next project. Jackman’s been nailed down for the movie for a while at this point, but Scott also said he’s now pursuing fellow member of the Hugh Crew Hugh Grant for a part, as well as Cooper. Who’s had a small, but dense, career since making his debut with Adolescence, where he played young murder suspect Jamie Miller during the show’s critically celebrated four-episode run. Since then, Cooper’s appeared in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, as the young version of Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff, and has lined up a number of other projects in a very short span of time, i.e., since about five minutes after casting directors in Hollywood saw the show’s landmark third episode and immediately went, “Oh, okay.”

Scott began making noises about tackling Treasure Island back in June, signing Jackman on at the time. Possibly not coincidentally, Scott’s writer and executive producer for the project is Jack Thorne, who co-created Adolescence, and is thus very familiar with Cooper’s talents. Meanwhile, the film will—as far as we can work out—be the first non-Muppets or Disney cartoon space pirate movie adaptation of Stevenson’s tale since 1999, when Jack Palance starred as Silver in a little-remembered effort from director Peter Rowe.