Pan

[Crockett]

I haven't seen Ridley's Robin Hood yet but that version beforehand could've been something alright. Now about Pan, the idea is well interesting but it might be tough film to sell, both to the studios and the audiences.

 

[Eggyman]

I like the idea.

 

[dark_b]

you know what would be more entertaining? just making a movie where a detective is haunting down a child kidnapper. and through the movie you make peter pan references. like what if it was like that.

you dont need to make it 100% clear to everyone on this planet that this is a peter pan movie with a twist.

 

[Majik1387]

When I entered the thread I expected a random Greek mythos movie about Pan; Now I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I'm pretty sure I'm leaning towards sad.

 

[Eggyman]

you know what would be more entertaining? just making a movie where a detective is haunting down a child kidnapper. and through the movie you make peter pan references. like what if it was like that.

you dont need to make it 100% clear to everyone on this planet that this is a peter pan movie with a twist.

Isn't that what it's going to be like? That's what it sounded like to me.

 

[dark_b]

Isn't that what it's going to be like? That's what it sounded like to me.

they are already promoting it as a peter pan movie with a twist and the title is ''Pan''.

they are not teasing wit hit. they are trowing it in our faces.


i always looked at Jeepers Creepers as a movie that teased for 5% that what if Jack the Ripper was this monster(from the movie)

 

[Majik1387]

they are already promoting it as a peter pan movie with a twist and the title is ''Pan''.

they are not teasing wit hit. they are trowing it in our faces.


i always looked at Jeepers Creepers as a movie that teased for 5% that what if Jack the Ripper was this monster(from the movie)

Why is that?

 

[Eggyman]

they are already promoting it as a peter pan movie with a twist and the title is ''Pan''.

they are not teasing wit hit. they are trowing it in our faces.


i always looked at Jeepers Creepers as a movie that teased for 5% that what if Jack the Ripper was this monster(from the movie)

That's possibly down to you being mental. Cheers.

 

[SuperT]

This sounds like this has loosely taken the idea from the book The Child Thief which is an alternate, darker and more sinister teling of the Peter Pan story.

Interesting book, you all should read it.

 

[ALP]

you know what would be more entertaining? just making a movie where a detective is haunting down a child kidnapper. and through the movie you make peter pan references. like what if it was like that.

you dont need to make it 100% clear to everyone on this planet that this is a peter pan movie with a twist.

These are my thoughts exactly.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I really dig this idea alot actually. Could be very cool. Is this modern or taking place in the classic story? If it's done in the way the classical story did it, I dig it even more.

 

[ross2287]

Sounds at the very least interesting. Can't wait to see a trailer.

 

[Gabe99]

From AICN Monday, March 6, 2006:
New Line turns PAN evil and Hook good!?!?

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with one of the only post-Oscar tidbits to sneak out this morning. This one concerns a film called PAN, which is a sort of bizarro world take on the Peter Pan legend, where Hook is a cop hunting down a psychopathic villain with the supernatural powers of Pan. New Line has picked up this pitch by Ben Magid. I don't know more than that, but that sounds pretty effin' cool to me. However, if they reallllyyy want to make it as badass as that premise suggests, then they have to cast the evil Pan character as a young boy. If it's just some 20 something WB star killing people, then the joy of the twist on the legend is gone. I can't wait to hear more info on this one!!

From Motion Captured:
The Morning Read: 'Harry Potter' animation director signs on for a brand-new 'Pan'

It appears a whooooole lot of people went to see "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" this weekend, and if you did, there's a good chance one of the things you remember most about the film is that animated sequence they used to tell the story of The Three Brothers, the exposition necessary to make sense of the Deathly Hallows. Ben Hibon directed that sequence, it turns out, and now he may be signed on to direct the Ben Magid script "Pan." That's intriguing news. I remember reading "Pan" back when it was first set up with Guillermo Del Toro attached as director. It's a refiguring of the Peter Pan archetypes that plays as a dark murder-mystery with Hook as a police detective tracking a killer. It's about as far from the original J. M. Barrie story as possible, and I'm a firm believer that Barrie's work is already jet-black to begin with, filled with rich subtextual material for new writers to explore in a million different ways. If the new "Potter" is what it took to kickstart Hibon as a filmmaker, it sounds like a real win all the way around, because he ended up contributing one of the best moments in the series, a pivotal piece of Potter folklore.

From Variety:
Director set for 'Pan' - Hibon directed 'Deathly Hallows' animated sequence

Swiss director Ben Hibon, who helmed the animated sequence in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," has been tapped to direct fantasy action thriller "Pan" for Social Capital Films and Energy Entertainment.

Project is based on Ben Magid's script, originally acquired in 2006 by New Line as a vehicle for Guillermo del Toro to direct. The film puts a dark spin on J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," with Captain Hook as a haunted former police detective in pursuit of a childlike kidnapper.

Christopher Tuffin, Martin Shore and Brooklyn Weaver are producing; Renee Tab and Tarik Heitmann exec produce. Casting is under way for a European shoot next fall.

"Ben Hibon is a true visionary whose directorial talents will entertain and surprise audiences of all ages for decades to come," Tuffin said. Tuffin and Shore recently financed and exec produced the Halle Berry-Olivier Martinez thriller "Dark Tide."

Producer David Heyman selected Hibon to supervise the four-minute animated sequence -- which has received strong critical support -- in "Deathly Hallows" to illustrate the Deathly Hallows origin story. The sequence was produced at post-production house Framestore London.

Hibon's previous animation directing credits include the short "Codehunters," which premiered at the 2006 MTV Asia Awards and has been shown at more than 50 film festivals, as well as the videogames "Heavenly Sword" and "Killer 7."

Hibon, along with his producing partners Tab and Heitmann, also recently optioned the novel "Worldshaker," by Richard Harland, and plans to direct the feature film adaption of the coming-of-age steampunk novel, set in a roving city during the Victorian era.

Hibon is repped by WME and managed by Heitmann Entertainment and Artist Talent Management.

 

[Hush]

This does sound interesting.

 

[kickass]

Jeremy Sumpter (who's in Friday Night Lights now) who played the '03 Peter Pan has the words "To die would be an awfully big adventure" tattooed on him. It's nice to see young actors appreciative of their past work, unlike some actors who are "embarrassed" for whatever reason.

http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/2493303/jeremy-sumpter-troix-19/

 

[Figs]

At first I thought this was kind of lame but the more I hear the more i'm interested. This could actually turn out to be pretty unique.

Have they mentioned if it's going to be live action or not? Ben Hibon's story sequence in The Deathly Hallows was one of my favorite parts of the film, would be interesting to use that style but I would prefer live action.

My girl said it would be cool if they did a psuedo-film noir style, while that sounds cool i'm not sure if that would work.

 

[The Avatar]

why the **** does everything have to be dark and twisted now? Peter Pan is a cherished child hood story about innocence, leave it the **** alone you ****eating hollywood *******s.

 

[Poeman]

Sounds really stupid...Hollywood has no creativity left.

 

[kickass]

why the **** does everything have to be dark and twisted now? Peter Pan is a cherished child hood story about innocence, leave it the **** alone you ****eating hollywood *******s.

Have you ever read J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan? The original book? It isn't your Disney sing along tale. It's serious and loaded with adult themes throughout. Not to mention it's not the easiest book to get through because the language is pretty difficult to decipher.

 

[kickass]

Sounds really stupid...Hollywood has no creativity left.

This is an entirely different argument on it's own, which would take a thousand pages to get through....so I'm just going to sum it up as best I can in the most basic of terms:

Fantastic films are released each and every month.
There are bad movies today and there will be bad movies tomorrow, just like there were bad movies yesterday.
But the movies we love so dear, both old and new, are Hollywood films.

Hollywood hasn't lost creativity. Audiences have lost imagination.

 

[El Payaso]

Other than the names, I barely see this as a Peter Pan version. It's much more of a thriller that makes a reference to the Peter Pan story. Like A.I. and Pinocchio. Because A.I. was not Pinocchio.

 

[ALP]

Have you ever read J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan? The original book? It isn't your Disney sing along tale. It's serious and loaded with adult themes throughout. Not to mention it's not the easiest book to get through because the language is pretty difficult to decipher.

I love the book. Sure there are dark themes but it's absolutely nothing like this supposed crap about Hook as a cop chasing a child kidnapper who is named Peter Pan. The person said that this film is twisting the original story- that is true in every way.

This is an entirely different argument on it's own, which would take a thousand pages to get through....so I'm just going to sum it up as best I can in the most basic of terms:

Fantastic films are released each and every month.
There are bad movies today and there will be bad movies tomorrow, just like there were bad movies yesterday.
But the movies we love so dear, both old and new, are Hollywood films.

Hollywood hasn't lost creativity. Audiences have lost imagination.

You can only speak for yourself.

Most of Hollywood's films are schlock. Either big budget crap during the Summer or medium budget lame horrors and thrillers during the rest of the year. How has the audience lost imagination? Maybe the audience has realized that Hollywood produces masses of remakes and reimaginings every year. Like we really need a new Jason, Freddy, Chucky, and Myers. Or maybe 50 adaptations of A Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland?

I see brilliant creative films all of the time, but very few of them come from Hollywood.

 

[Majik1387]

Other than the names, I barely see this as a Peter Pan version. It's much more of a thriller that makes a reference to the Peter Pan story. Like A.I. and Pinocchio. Because A.I. was not Pinocchio.

Other than the kids motivation, it clearly was Pinocchio.

 

[El Payaso]

Other than the kids motivation, it clearly was Pinocchio.

And the whale? And the cat and the fox? And the name Pinocchio, Geppeto etc etc?

No, the references were too unimaginatively and painfully obvious but it wasn't it. It was based on it though. The original Pinocchio certainly didn't find out about a fictional character called Pinocchio.

 

[Vapor]

Sounds pretty cool and different.

It reminds me of a story to do with the comic book series Fables. I haven't read the series myself but I remember reading about it and the guy who writes it originally wanted to go with Peter Pan as the main bad guy who kidnaps children and Captain Hook as a misunderstood hero, trying to rescue the kids. But 'cos the rights were still with Great Ormond Street he couldn't use Peter Pan characters so he ended up making Gepetto the big bad...