Argumento
This adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, a dramatic and epic adventure story about a 17-year-old desperate to secure his inheritance, culminating in a chase from the islands in the west of Scotland to Edinburgh, brings together two creative giants from the world of the graphic novel, as the absolute ‘dream team’ – artist Cam Kennedy, and scriptwriter Alan Grant.
Kidnapped is set in 1751, during the time of the Jacobite rebellion – a tumultuous and tragic period in Scottish history. When David Balfour sets out to find his uncle, he never dreamed his path would lead tosuch exploits – that he would discover that a fortune was rightfully his – that he would narrowly escape being murdered – that he would be kidnapped, but saved from a life of slavery – and thrown from one escapade to another in the company of the fugitive masterful swordsman Alan Breck Stewart.
They meet on the brig Covenant just before they are shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland. After witnessing the murder of Colin Campbell (the notorious ‘Red Fox’) David makes a dramatic and extraordinary flight for Colin Campbell (the notorious ‘Red Fox’) David makes a dramatic and extraordinary flight for his life across Scotland before he can claim his rightful inheritance.