When is Peter Pan no longer Peter Pan?

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I think when you ditch everything but character names

Aaron Eckhart and AnnaSophia Robb will star in a dark re-imagining of "Peter Pan" for Molinarie and Social Capital reports Screen Daily.

In this version, Captain Hook (Eckhart) is a tormented former detective on the trail of a childlike kidnapper. Robb plays Wendy, the lone survivor who leaves an asylum to help in the hunt.

Sean Bean has already been cast as Smee, a chief detective and Hook’s only ally on the force. Ben Hibon directs from a screenplay by Ben Magid, while Renee Tab, Christopher Tuffin, Martin Shore and Brooklyn Weaver are producing.

The project was originally set up at New Line as a directing vehicle for Guillermo del Toro. Shooting kicks off in October in Eastern Europe.
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I think this is a bit TOO derivative of the Pan story.
 
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In this version, Captain Hook (Eckhart) is a tormented former detective on the trail of a childlike kidnapper. Robb plays Wendy, the lone survivor who leaves an asylum to help in the hunt.

Sean Bean has already been cast as Smee, a chief detective and Hook’s only ally on the force. Ben Hibon directs from a screenplay by Ben Magid, while Renee Tab, Christopher Tuffin, Martin Shore and Brooklyn Weaver are producing.
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That sounds awesome. Definitely more of a crime thriller with a Peter Pan theme than a "re-imagining" though.
 
Roto13 said:
That sounds awesome. Definitely more of a crime thriller with a Peter Pan theme than a "re-imagining" though.
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Not...really. They're going for the whole "innocent childhood story is actually dark and gritty" angle by turning Peter into a bad guy who kidnaps children. The trope of the thematic reversal just feels tired.
 
GuessWho said:
lol seems like they are only using the names of characters.
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To be fair, it is an easy way to introduce the setting without having to spend too much time on it. "Oh, its Neverneverland? Got it, move on with the plot."

Granted, with terrible writing, they won't use that extra time, but still. Its not like this convention hasn't existed before, Sophocles and Shakespeare weren't writing original stories, just well written versions of them.

Juanadams said:
Why are the pirates cops? i'm confused.
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Why the hell not?
 
Only thing left to see is: What is the metaphorical "Croc" in this version of Pan?

Lt. Croc, Internal Affairs! Make it so!
 
Lonestar said:
Only thing left to see is: What is the metaphorical "Croc" in this version of Pan?

Lt. Croc, Internal Affairs! Make it so!
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It is probably the only literal translation in the film. Its the croc the Pan killer uses to dispose of the bodies. Hook, in a daring attempt to rescue Wendy, loses his hand to the monster.
 
this will look nice next to my "dark and gritty mario" art and my Epic Mickey concept art, in my room full of "childhood things I want to relive but in a dark and gritty way to feign deepness"
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
It is probably the only literal translation in the film. Its the croc the Pan killer uses to dispose of the bodies. Hook, in a daring attempt to rescue Wendy, loses his hand to the monster.
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Yeah, when you see that this movie is a 180 degree version of Peter Pan, it only makes sense that Hook is chasing the Croc, with something that's opposite of a clock. If Time is Change, the the opposite is Constant.

Hook uses Penny Hume to catch Croc.


I'd like to think a movie with Eckhart and Bean would be great, but I don't know...
 
Smision said:
this will look nice next to my "dark and gritty mario" art and my Epic Mickey concept art, in my room full of "childhood things I want to relive but in a dark and gritty way to feign deepness"
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hey man there was a time when post-apocalyptic Mario was an amusing concept for a motion picture
 
Oh, right. Hook was a pedophile in The Lost Girls and Peter was a homeless boy who protected Wendy and her brothers from him. That's probably what I was thinking of.
 
Detective Hook?

and cops are going to be the bad guys? So Peter Pan is going to be wendy's hallucination and when she flies she actually jumps off the top of a building and dies?
 
davepoobond said:
Detective Hook?

and cops are going to be the bad guys? So Peter Pan is going to be wendy's hallucination and when she flies she actually jumps off the top of a building and dies?
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Maybe Wendy has split personalities. Explains Peter's femme mannerisms.
 
On one hand, nifty. On the other hand Peter Pan needs dark and gritty like Bambi needs action scenes. And yes, I know the Barrie original wasn't all warm-and-fuzzy. I don't know. Depending on execution this could be really interesting or the worst thing ever.
 
davepoobond said:
Detective Hook?

and cops are going to be the bad guys? So Peter Pan is going to be wendy's hallucination and when she flies she actually jumps off the top of a building and dies?
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Then the camera pans slowly down to her body, then over her tattered gothic outfit, then over her face which has smeared mascara running with the drops of blood coming from her tear ducts that contrasts starkly with her pale skin and black hair, and finally, over to her arm...which has a heroin needle sticking out of it.

Marilyn Manson's version of "I put a spell on you" plays in the background during the shot, which is totally bit off from Lost Highway, and reveals that whole thing was a focus group effort to copy David Lynch but make it more accessible to the common manbaby.
 
MisterHero said:
hey man there was a time when post-apocalyptic Mario was an amusing concept for a motion picture
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Always liked this part of the AV Club article about the SMB movie:

In his memoir, Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, And All The Rest Of My Hollywood Friends, Leguizamo writes of a fundamental culture clash between the directors, Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, and everyone else. As the too-cool-for-the-room creators of Max Headroom, Morton and Jankel set out to make a dark, dystopian, Blade Runner-derived science-fiction film about pie-eyed innocents trapped in a world they never made. Everyone else wanted to make a fun kids’ film about loveable plumbers having adventures.
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As much as the idea of Hollywood execs sitting in a room drawing a property out of a hat to give the "DARK AND GRITTY" treatment to, I'm honestly kind of intrigued, more to do with Del Toro really.
 
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*stab*
 
Gooster said:
Always liked this part of the AV Club article about the SMB movie:
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LOL I enjoyed reading that, thanks. :)

It's funny because of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show I also expected the possible return of Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells. Not counting the games, a greater contrast in actual, existing examples does not exist.
 
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