Warner Brothers is going to "Nolanize" Peter Pan??

AlexDarke

AlexDarke

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I just read that Warner Bros is doing a reboot/origin story of Peter Pan, with the hopes of making a darker and grittier version. I actually think this could be really cool, and from this article on SLASHFILM, it sounds like they are pursuing Javier Bardem as the villain!

As much as I'm over the reboot/remake/sequel-centric cinema movement, I'm on board for this for some reason.

What do you guys think?
 
Leon Bailey said:
Interesting. A darker Peter Pan? Well I have only seen the Disney version, who knows how dark he really is lol.
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I take it you have not seen the recent episodes of ABC's (owned by Disney...) "Once Upon a Time". This season there is a very 'dark' Peter Pan, and while not Joffrey of "Game of Thrones" level of dark sadism, is quite dark relative to Disney's "Peter Pan"... or most other Pans...
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
I take it you have not seen the recent episodes of ABC's (owned by Disney...) "Once Upon a Time". This season there is a very 'dark' Peter Pan, and while not Joffrey of "Game of Thrones" level of dark sadism, is quite dark relative to Disney's "Peter Pan"... or most other Pans...
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I was just thinking that. I'm not a huge fan of Once Upon a Time, watch it with my GF. However I've liked this new alternate peter pan story they have going. Very interesting and gritty.

While it is a common thing to give a grittier version of an old story, it's more of a sign of the times. We're no longer eating up the happy, simple, good vs bad stories anymore. We want shades of grey, and a lot of those greys near the black. It's more interesting, and easier to digest these days. I'm a fan of those stories. From Game of Thrones, to Battlestar Galactica, it's a better way to tell a story IMO.

Not to mention, what else are they going to do to it? If they just remake the same story, no one will care.
 
David Jimerson said:
Everybody doing gritty reminds me of this Onion piece:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/unconventional-director-sets-shakespeare-play-in-t,2214/
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Haha, that's great. The other new trend is the modern setting/old school dialogue version like in Ralph Fiennes' "Coriolanus," and Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing." Though, the upcoming Michael Fassbender/Marion Cottilard "Macbeth" is apparently going to be fully old-school.

The gritty thing has become tiresome, especially when it's now to the point that they're trying to do "gritty" versions of things that were already considered gritty at the time (looking at you, "I, Frankenstein").
 
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