Plagiarism?

well since it was written in 1882 any copyright has expired even with the revisioned idiotically long law most countries have now (seriuosly, 95 years of copyright? should we make libraries extinct?)
and since this movie strays so far from the book claiming it was plgiarism would be like cliaming that any movie where they go to search for a pirate treasure on an island and gets a mutiny is a plagiarism.

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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.

In the beginning credits when they show the title overtop of the map, Robert Louis Stevenson's name is written on it. It's shown just before they pan up to the title.

Robert Lewis Stevenson has a writer's credit for this, a fact which takes all of 30 seconds to verify.

I'm curious as to what prompted this question? Moral indignation? I can't imagine why this worries you so.

Movie/TV adaptations are made from novels all the time. I don't think the cry of "plagiarism!!!" comes up very often, particularly when the film is named for the novel. It's kind of bewildering that you would assume it in this case.

PS - The "Twilight" films are also not plagiarism. Just bad taste.

Dear scifi writers: "decimated" means to reduce by 1/10th. But nice try on using a big word!

They should just have said "Title and character names suggested by a work by Robert Louis Stevenson" and left it at that.

Are you a moron?

Is Robert Louis Stevenson given credit or is plagiarized?