PETER PAN FACTS
Added on: 14th Mar 2016
WENDY WAS ORIGINALLY SEEN AS A BOY’S NAME.
HOWEVER, AFTER THE PLAY’S RELEASE, THE
NAME’S POPULARITY AS A FEMALE’S NAME
SKYROCKETED!
AFTER PETER PAN, BARRIE TURNED HIS ATTENTION
TOWARDS MORE ADULT NOVELS. I GUESS ALL BUT
ONE, REALLY DO HAVE TO GROW UP!
MICHAEL JACKSON NEARLY PLAYED THE GROWN UP
PETER PAN IN STEVEN SPIELBERG’S 1991 FILM, HOOK.
SPIELBERG BEGAN PLANNING THE MOVIE IN THE EARLY
80’S. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUSICAL WITH
JACKSON SINGING THE MAJORITY OF SONGS ON
THE SOUNDTRACK. HOWEVER, WITH SPIELBERG TOO
BUSY FILMING INDIANA JONES AND JACKSON NOT
COMPLETELY INTERESTED IN THE IDEA OF A GROWN UP
PETER PAN, THE IDEA WAS SCRAPPED AND NOT
REVISITED AGAIN UNTIL 1989.
EVEN THOUGH MICHAEL JACKSON NEVER APPEARED
IN HOOK, THERE ARE SOME FAMILIAR ACTORS AND
ACTRESSES THAT CAN BE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE
MOVIE. PHIL COLLINS MAKES A CAMEO AS A
POLICE INSPECTOR, WHILE GEORGE LUCAS AND
CARRIE FISHER APPEAR AS A COUPLE KISSING ON
A BRIDGE. THAT PIRATE WHO GETS LOCKED IN
THE WOODEN CHEST? THAT’S GLENN CLOSE.
SERIOUSLY. AND THE LIST DOESN’T STOP THERE.
HOOK WAS ACTUALLY GWYNETH PALTROW’S SECOND
MOVIE, WHERE SHE APPEARS AS A TEENAGE
WENDY DARLING.
ROBIN WILLIAMS WAS FORCED TO SHAVE HIS ARMS
AND CHEST BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO OFFICIALLY
TAKE ON THE ROLE OF PETER PAN.
BEFORE WE MOVE ON FROM THE TOPIC OF HOOK,
IT’S ALSO WORTH MENTIONING THAT WHILE
SPIELBERG HAD A BLAST ON SET, HE WAS
PRETTY DISAPPOINTED WITH HOW HOOK TURNED
OUT, AND COUNTS IT AS ONE OF HIS NOT-SO-IMPRESSIVE
ACCOMPLISHMENTS. HE IS HOPING SIT DOWN TO
WATCH IT AGAIN SOMEDAY, AND SEE IT IN A NEW LIGHT.
THERE IS AN OFFICIAL SEQUEL TO PETER PAN,
PETER PAN IN SCARLET, ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT
WRITTEN BY J.M. BARRIE AND WAS PUBLISHED
NEARLY A CENTURY AFTER THE ORIGINAL. AUTHOR
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN WAS AUTHORIZED BY
GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL TO WRITE AND
PUBLISH HER OWN STORY THAT CONTINUED THE
STORY OF THE BOY WHO WOULDN’T GROW UP.
MISTER SMEE, CAPTAIN HOOK’S LOYAL SIDEKICK,
IS ONE OF THE TWO PIRATES TO SURVIVE THE FINAL
BATTLE BETWEEN PETER AND THE PIRATES.
ACCORDING TO BARRIE, AFTER THE STORY
CONCLUDES, SMEE WANDERS THE WORLD,
SELLING SOUVENIRS FROM THE NEVERLAND AND
CLAIMS TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN THAT HE
WAS THE “ONLY MAN WHOM JAMES HOOK FEARED.”
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