New Trailer: PAN (1 Viewer)

Edwin-S · Nov 25, 2014

Blackbeard??
Hook as a hero?
Sky trams in Neverland?

Ok that last one is believable.

Take a classic story. Twist it out of all recognition, give it a *hip* one word title and this is what you get.

OTOH maybe it will be good.

dpippel · Nov 25, 2014

I swear there isn't a single, solitary original thought in Hollywood any more. Ugh.

Ejanss · Nov 25, 2014

Either that, or the book rights to "Peter & the Starcatchers" were still tied up by that Broadway show.

(Like the flood of non-Wicked Oz-backstory movies after the original source tale fell into public domain, we've had a flood of Pan-origin projects without Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson, and you can smell the distinct whiff of Making Up Their Own Version.)

dpippel · Nov 25, 2014

I can smell the distinct whiff of *something*, that's for sure.

andySu · Nov 25, 2014

I saw the title and thought it was about the life and times of a frying Pan.

Hook was okay for its time and occasionally now play it maybe once every Second star to the right and straight on till morning. Neverland.

Ejanss · Nov 25, 2014

andySu said:
I saw the title and thought it was about the life and times of a frying Pan.

I was thinking more Guillermo Del Toro, without the labyrinth.

Citizen87645 · Nov 25, 2014

Too easy.

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andySu · Nov 26, 2014

Ejanss said:
I was thinking more Guillermo Del Toro, without the labyrinth.

Oh yeah that Pan's Labyrinth I have that on DVD a very dark scary film.

Adam Lenhardt · Nov 26, 2014

I don't know, the trailer has a great visual look about it, and after Pride & Prejudice, Atonement and Hanna, Wright's earned the benefit of the doubt from me.

dpippel · Nov 27, 2014

It's the very premise of the film that's the problem for me, not the director. Do we really need yet ANOTHER movie about Peter Pan? No, not in my mind we don't. I'd much rather see Wright's talents be used for something new, original, and different than a rehashing of source material that we've all seen in some form or another over and over again for decades.

Ejanss · Nov 27, 2014

dpippel said:
It's the very premise of the film that's the problem for me, not the director. Do we really need yet ANOTHER movie about Peter Pan?

No, we don't--We don't need a dozen Oz deconstructions about sister rivalry, but Universal just won't get around to making Wicked.
We don't need 300 overstylized Spartan-warrior movies, but Brett Ratner says he's not going to make that God of War movie after all.
And we don't need a dozen Peter Pan origins, but Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson aren't selling their origin novels.

HOWEVER: That still doesn't let off the hook the fact that Neverland, Sparta and Oz are all public domain, which means any raccoon can root in the trash can for free, hoping he'll find someone else's goodies.

Dick · Dec 8, 2014

dpippel said:
Do we really need yet ANOTHER movie about Peter Pan?

Well, only if someone can finally get it right!! The Barrie novel was often quite touching, but its ending was simultaneously wistful and absolutely heartbreaking. Had P.J. Hogan been permitted to release his 2003 film with the original ending (which now shows up only as a deleted sequence) it would have come very close to the spirit of the author. Instead, I am assuming a tepid test screening killed that idea because studios and filmmakers haven't the balls to stick with their convictions, and decided to dilute it with a much more conventional happy ending. .

dpippel · Dec 9, 2014

Seeing that the story has been adapted many times in one form or another, I'd say the chances of that happening are low. This looks like just another formulaic "property".

Ejanss · Dec 9, 2014

Not to mention, it looks like a badly remembered version of SyFy's "Neverland" origin miniseries, and that one at least had Hook already as a street criminal trained by Anne Bonney, not Blackbeard.
(And used real Native Indians for Tiger Lily's tribe, not that colorful...whatever PC-dodge they are in this one.)

All blithely ignoring that JM Barrie already wrote an origin story, "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", and none of the fantasy backstories have even hit close yet.
Barrie did, however, mention that Hook had served under Blackbeard (and claimed to be, quote, "The only pirate that Barbecue ever feared"), so that's at least....one point of book-accuracy. Margin of error.

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