6/8/2023 0 Comments Peter pan barrie![]() ![]() It’s all very familiar, a bit too stagey and not particularly imaginative in terms of injecting anything new to the Peter Pan lore. The founders of Mischief, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer. And that’s essentially what summons the silent fairy Tinkerbell (Yara Shahidi) and the boy who’s never grown up, Peter Pan (Alexander Molony). 2 days ago &0183 &32 Peter Pan Goes Wrong is the manic brainchild of U.K.-based theatre company Mischief. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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