If you really think about the fantasy and themes in the core story of Peter Pan, you’ll realize it’s one of the most rich pieces of source material used for film in a long time. Not that any of the Peter Pan films have really done it justice (although I loved Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams in Hook), but the basic story of Peter Pan is really a fantastic one.
The good folks over at The Hollywood North Report and now saying that New Line has picked up an option on a new Peter Pan movie… but with a bit of a twist to it:
New Line has acquired horror pitch Pan by writer Ben Magid in a preemptive bid and set it up with Brooklyn Weaver’s Energy Entertainment banner according to Variety. The story is a backward take on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan with supernatural elements in which the Pan character’s a villain tracked by police captain named Hook.
Well… that sounds interesting… I think. Feels weird though. It’s almost like saying “let’s make a new Star Wars where Luke is a homicidal maniac in New York and is being hunted by the heroic detective Ben “Darth” Vader”. It doesn’t quite fit. But hey, I’m all for studios trying something new. I’ll give it a shot.
