Robinson Crusoe on Mars was produced by Paramount Pictures.
Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree co-starred in a 1975 film Man Friday which sardonically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of seeing his dark-skinned companion as anything but an inferior creature, while Friday is more enlightened and sympathetic
 Most famously, Defoe's suspected inspiration for Robinson Crusoe is thought to be Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years on the uninhabited island of Ms a Tierra (renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966):2324 in the Juan Fernndez Islands off the Chilean coast

