Well, it's happening. Disney is releasing a remake of Peter Pan, with the Director of Pete's Dragon directing. And it's coming out in 2018.
STTR is being heavily redone now, so I'm pretty much in the same place when I started this whole shindig. A big movie's release date becomes a deadline, I end up publishing STTR around the same time as the movie is released and barely get any results. Well, hopefully, it goes better this time, as the book is slightly different than before.
Well, here it is, the synopsis for the new version of Second to the Right:
London was no place for legends, for fairies, or tales of adventure. The grown-ups had forbidden childish behaviors, replacing them with good manners and priming for adulthood.
Yet there were whispers of a child, a dirty-haired boy named Peter who soothed children to sleep with his pan flute, roamed the streets, and saved children from Grown-ups' grasp by sword or by cleverness. This boy, a heartless, joyful, and clever child, with a knack for sword-fighting, dreamed of reaching Neverland again after his shadow got torn off by pirates.
Through his adventures with other children, including gangs of thieves and a young bookseller, he learns more about the world around him, including how terrible mothers are. After narrowly escaping the clutches of Captain Hook once again, he lands on the doorstep of Elizabeth Robertson, a precocious rebellious girl who hides him from her inventor-turned-investment banker Father and her strict Mother. She gives him the name Peter Pan after his trusty Pan flute, and her Mother tries to take him in as a son she never had. As Captain Hook, with his trusty crew and a wise Mr. Smee, draws closer to the child, Peter finds that his shadow had been torn off again, only this time by a dog's teeth. She glues it back onto him using a bar of glue soap her Father invented, before the alarm clock.
He realizes he can fly and brings Elizabeth to fly above the clouds with him. They are soon encountered by Captain Hook again, only for Elizabeth to be captured. He uses another flying ship with Elizabeth's father to catch up to the Jolly Roger and dispatch of the crew. Peter fights Hook as their ship travels further along to Neverland. After Peter cuts off Hook's hand, thanks to Father Robertson distracting alarm clock, Hook swears revenge as he and Smee escape from the Jolly Roger to rebuild their crew. Peter flies the ship back to London, per Elizabeth's request, as Peter Pan flies back to Neverland, finding the Lost Boys and ultimately flying back to the same house, where Wendy, John, and Michael Darling now sleep.
What do you think?
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Thank you, have a great weekend, and I'll see you in the sunlight!
(Firewall Story Bible coming up if you want.)
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