New Line grabs Pan
Filed under: Horror, Independent, Deals, New Line, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels, Cinematical Indie
We all love to talk about how Hollywood never
has any new ideas, and the folks there rarely do anything to change our minds, churning out crappy sequel after crappy
sequel, and endlessly remaking and tweaking old ideas. Among those poor, abused old ideas is that of a little,
green-clad boy named Peter Pan. From a silent
adaptation in 1924 to the retina-scarring image of a fully-Naired Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter in Hook; from the 1950s cartoon
version to Johnny Depp's J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, Hollywood just cannot get enough of that flying
kid. And now, just in case you were worried a whole three years might pass without another Peter Pan flick, New Line has
bought a pitch that approaches the story from a rather promising horror angle.Blandly-but-cleverly entitled Pan, first-time writer Ben Magid's pitch has a supernatural twist, and depicts Peter as "a villain tracked by police captain named Hook"; New Line paid for the pitch and then set the film up to be developed through the recently-founded Energy Entertainment management group. Because I'm a whore for dark detective stories, I think this approach has a ton of potential. The more rational among you, however, will probably say that it's going to be a crappy, gimmicky mess with a throwaway story that probably won't be able to sustain 90 minutes of film. Sigh. Dammit, why can't you just let me dream for a few minutes?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-06-2006 @ 5:53PM
Peter Nellhaus said...
While not quite as literal an adaptation as described above, "Peter Pan" was the inspiration for "The Lost Boys" starring the two Coreys.
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3-07-2006 @ 4:48PM
Julia said...
I think Hollywood has some excellent ideas!!!
I believe in world peace!!!
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I believe we all have potential.
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Thank you for doing what you do, I love being a part of it!
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4-05-2006 @ 5:14PM
Kim Voynar said...
You forgot the very excellent (and vastly underappreciated) 2003 version scripted by Michael Goldenberg, who just scripted Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and is currently working on Where the Wild Things Are.
I loved the 2003 Peter Pan, but from what I've heard about it, the script was even better than the finished product; the director apparently changed some things and took out some really good lines. Ah, well.
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