PETER PAN IS NOW THAT DARK AND SINISTER MAN

Have to agree with everything you said here Elizabeth. I'm actually kind of at a loss to even imagine this movie.

Really like Eckhart and Bean though so I have to say i'd see it purely for them.

Ya know Michael Jackson was supposed to play Peter Pan but when he got accused of molesting children it fell through. I could never see him in the role......................until now.

Also when I first started reading the article I though they were actually crazy enough to do a faithful remake but with a hard R rating. I don't care how bad that is I would watch it at least once. Many more times high.

Love how imaginative they get with giving these hard-edged adaptations hard-edged names: Pan, Oz, Red Riding Hood

I'll be looking forward to Gretel, Blind Mice, SW and 'occhio.

I'd be disgusted if Guillermo Del Toro's name wasn't in there. But it is. So, we'll see.

That plot description gave me douche chills, but I agree, there must be something there if Del Toro was involved.

Keeping the names for the detectives is all sorts of corny (especially if it were a realistic procedural), but I could almost see it working if it were a heightened reality ala FRANKLYN, VIDOCQ, or a Gilliam or Jeunet take.

And then I'm reminded of that weird street-punk version with Will Wheaton, and I cringe.

If Pan is to Peter Pan as Red Riding is to Red Riding Hood, then maybe.

But unless the script calls for Bean to beat the crap out of people snickering at his name every few minutes, I have serious doubts.

And, yes, Fables would be an insanely genius followup (or counterprogramming) to Game of Thrones. If not now, when?

This sounds stupid.

I can't help but think there was a humorous bit of miscommunication, and Guillermo del Toro thought someone was talking about himself being attached to "Pan's Labyrinth".

I predict this film will get panned.

Sorry.   This revisionist grim take (or Grimm take) on fairy tales is getting out of hand.  It's like all the studios are using the same hybrid formula with the same columns.

$10 says Hook and Smee have to interrogate a hooker that goes by the name Tigerlilly.  Oh, and Detective Hook lost the use of his hand while investigating a cannibal who went by the name "The Croc."  

Yeah, still shitty.

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Originally Posted by The Rocka-Who? 

$10 says Hook and Smee have to interrogate a hooker that goes by the name Tigerlilly.  Oh, and Detective Hook lost the use of his hand while investigating a cannibal who went by the name "The Croc."  

 

Yeah, still shitty.

"That's our missing girl."

"How can you tell?"

"See her shoulder?  The second scar to the right?"

I imagine the film will end with them recovering the kidnapped girl, dispatching Pan The Serial Killer, and then driving off into the newly breaking dawn. Y'know...straight on till morning?

Every single bit about this concept or concepts like it are low grade, low restricted income rent HORSESHIT.

Using a fairy tale as the basis of a story could work, Running Scared was a fairy tale movie (though not based on anything in particular iirc) and it worked after a fashion.  Rather than naming this Pan I'd change that and let people realise it for themselves.  Similar to how there are films around based on Shakespeare but without the titles, like a remix if you will.

This reminds me of After Alice, a bad low budget Kiefer Sutherland movie from just before he became Jack Bauer, where he plays a burned out cop on the trail of a serial killer called "Jabberwocky", other characters are called "Alice", "Hatter", etc. He even has a line where he tells his cat to stop smiling at him (I'm sure there are a lot of other references)

It's all about the Pan character, and what he's about. If it's creepy enough, this could work. Hook and Smee as buddy cops is silly, but if you've cast Ekhart and Bean, I'm pretty much sold.

Wouldn't it be awesome if they'd just throw Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates on Netflix streaming and call it done?  I always thought that show was as faithful and interesting adaptation of the book as we're likely to ever get.  Of course, I haven't seen it in years, so maybe that's just the nostalgia talking.  But I do remember Pan being just as assholish as he should be.

So is that Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson series being prepped for film anywhere? You'd think that one would be pre-sold. Or is this the start of another cockblocking story?