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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!

Wendy Darling

 

 

AFTER PETER PAN, BARRIE TURNED HIS ATTENTION

TOWARDS MORE ADULT NOVELS. I GUESS ALL BUT

ONE, REALLY DO HAVE TO GROW UP!

Berrie

 

 

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.

Michael Jackson

 

 

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.

Phil Collins, George Lucas,Carrie Fisher

 

 

ROBIN WILLIAMS WAS FORCED TO SHAVE HIS ARMS

AND CHEST BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO OFFICIALLY

TAKE ON THE ROLE OF PETER PAN.

Robin Williams

 

 

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.

Steven Spielberg

 

 

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.

Peter Pan

 

 

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.”

Smee

 


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