With The Jungle Book getting
rave reviews and box-office gross expected to be astonishingly good ($1
billion good), Disney proceeds deeper into their plan to redo old animated classics
into live-action movies with Peter Pan.
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filmmaker David Lowery, who most recently directed Robert Redford and Bryce
Dallas Howard in the Disney remake of Pete's Dragon, has been brought onboard to
helm this latest Peter Pan film from a script by Toby Hallbrooks, who also co-wrote
Lowery's Pete's Dragon.
Disney's 1953 animated
icon is still the most successful adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic novel.
Steven Spielberg's Hook starring Robin Williams as an older Peter Pan
underperformed, and in last year's Pan it looked like Peter had cement shoes.
So far Disney's track
record in this matter suggests that they are the best option to retell or
remake these old classics. Case in point, Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, and
Cinderella all preformed well at the box-office with Alice and Maleficent
getting the sequel order almost instantaneously.
Besides Peter Pan,
Disney also has Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Winnie the Pooh, The Sword in the
Stone, and Dumbo coming down the pipeline of animation-to-live-action movies.
Source - Variety
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