Joe Wright to Helm 'Pan'

[Immortalfire]

If they keep going, they'll have to continually recast Peter. The boy who never grows up doesn't need to be having his voice change.

 

[HaplessHenchman]

Just got back from seeing this movie with my 9 year old daughter. She loved it. I fell asleep about halfway through. I'm old and just could not keep my eyes open.

 

[Marvolo]

I don't believe that people were clamoring for a Peter Pan anything. I think Hollywood should just stop making Peter Pan movies already, nobody cares.

The property will remain an easy sell to kids. I'm sure Disney will do a live action Peter Pan at some point and it will likely do as well as their other recent live action films.

The issue here isn't a disinterest in Pan. The issue is the film. Some people took issue with white Tiger Lilly. Some took issue with the bizarre look of it all. Some took issue with it being a prequel no one asked for or really wanted etc. If this had just been a straight live action film of Pan involving Wendy it would have probably done fine providing it was a good film. Which this film clearly isn't.

 

[Lord]

Surprised it's being such a disaster at the boxoffice, it kinda looks like something that will be more successful abroad.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Ill just wait for Disney to make their Peter Pan adaption.

 

[TheVileOne]

What's the point of a Peter Pan origin anyway? I mean, he's not Batman. It's not like we needed to see his origin on film to start a franchise or something.

Besides that, didn't this same type of movie already get made over 10 years ago with Peter Pan?

 

[Immortalfire]

Did James Barrie ever have a definitive origin of Peter? It's been years upon years since I read the original stories.

 

[Lobo]

These horrible reviews have me curious. I have a free movie ticket, I'm very tempted to check this out to see how bad it could be. Peter Pan is one of my favorite childhood stories.

 

[Octoberist]

Hook still remains the best 'revisionist' Pan mover out there, flaws and all. It's an uneven movie that has so many Speilberg moments, that screams magical, that it will always be close to my heart.

I also like how it deals with mortality with Wendy, which is heartbreaking.

 

[Lobo]

I'm old now Peter, ever so much more than twenty. I watched Hook the other day. Never realized Gwyneth Paltrow was young Wendy.

 

[Brother Jack]

Hook still remains the best 'revisionist' Pan mover out there, flaws and all. It's an uneven movie that has so many Speilberg moments, that screams magical, that it will always be close to my heart.

I also like how it deals with mortality with Wendy, which is heartbreaking.

Hook got to a lot of the melancholy that underlines the original story. The whole movie is about the loss of childhood. And though it's also about reconnecting to one's childhood it's something that cannot (and should not) be permanent. Peter's refusal to grow up takes a tragic bent to it by the time the original ends and in Hook he reclaims it but ultimately has to give it up again. It's bittersweet, the choice between staying a child and becoming an adult.

... I kinda doubt this movie has any of that subtext.

 

[Lencho01]

What is supposedly the last lines of the film cracked me up.

 

[Lord]

One of the few things i never realy liked in Hook was the fact that Peter went to neverland as a baby, i always took it that once you reach there, you never age, so if you are a baby, you would stay a baby, and if you are an adult like Captain Hook, you remain an adult.

 

[Octoberist]

So..why didn't they just make Hugh Jackman play as Hook instead of Blackbeard? That's kinda dumb.

 

[terry78]

Ironically a biopic about the creator of its peanut butter namesake may have made more money.

 

[TheVileOne]

Just stop trying to make $100 million+ Peter Pan movies. This was a bad idea from the beginning.

 

[Micromind]

WB are terrible at making fairy tale movies.

 

[lime]

I just can't believe the movie is THAT bad.

Can't wait to watch it myself and judge it.

 

[SerialPeacemake]

Just stop trying to make $100 million+ Peter Pan movies. This was a bad idea from the beginning.

It's not a bad idea ,actually.

Properly executed , this could be an exciting movie that have huge appeal and could be a smash hit.


Obviouslt it they bungled this one really bad.

 

[Lobo]

Most likely would have been better to just adapt Peter pan than try to make Peter begins

 

[TheVileOne]

It's not a bad idea ,actually.

Properly executed , this could be an exciting movie that have huge appeal and could be a smash hit.


Obviouslt it they bungled this one really bad.

How? They tried a very similar movie in 2003, and that one also failed.

 

[Silvermoon]

How? They tried a very similar movie in 2003, and that one also failed.

I think the 2003 film gets more flak than it deserves. Were there some things that could have been done better? Sure. But on the whole I found 2003's Peter Pan a really charming movie (especially Jason Isaac's performace in it). By and large, I agree with this article on it:

http://www.avclub.com/article/best-peter-pan-film-one-youve-forgotten-about-225923

It's a shame it didn't do better box office wise.

Just my personal opinion though.

 

[Octoberist]

They should make a movie called 'Pants', about a man named 'Peter Pants'.

 

[SerialPeacemake]

How? They tried a very similar movie in 2003, and that one also failed.

It wasn't a total failure.At least that movie is well received by the critics and is on its way to become a cult classic of sort.And no , the 2003 version was in no way a "similar " movie to Pan.

As I said it all lies in the execution.People used to think that superhero movies were bound to fail too unti someone finally got it right.

 

[terry78]

I went to go see Martian again today and peered into a showing of Pan...****ing thing was empty while the movie was playing.