![]() ![]() It’s all very familiar, a bit too stagey and not particularly imaginative in terms of injecting anything new to the Peter Pan lore. And that’s essentially what summons the silent fairy Tinkerbell (Yara Shahidi) and the boy who’s never grown up, Peter Pan (Alexander Molony). Barrie from his immensely popular stage play of the same name, Peter Pan is a timeless classic of childrens literature. She’s fearful, a little bitter and wholly uninterested in embarking on this monumental change in her young life. It’s set in Victorian England, on the eve of eldest child, Wendy (Ever Anderson), going away to boarding school. Barrie’s original story of the same name. The first half of the screenplay, by Lowery and Toby Halbrooks, is a surprisingly traditional retelling of novelist J.M. ![]() But it sure is a bummer of a take on Peter Pan’s story at one point, Pan even laments, “This isn’t fun anymore,” and that sums up this adaptation to a tee. It’s certainly a gorgeous film to look at thanks to its lush sets and costume design, and gorgeous locations representing Neverland. Now Lowery returns to try again with Peter Pan & Wendy, which is partially based on Walt Disney’s animated Peter Pan (1953). Arguably, it remains the gold standard in that it has an original take that did its own thing, and did it very well. A mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native. Of the 20-plus live-action remakes of Disney animated movies since 1994’s The Jungle Book, one of the standouts is writer/director David Lowery’s 2016 reworking of Pete’s Dragon. Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. ![]()
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