Tagline: The timeless story as you’ve never seen it before.
A haunting tale of adventure and dreams, Peter Pan has thrilled audiences around the world since it premiered on a London stage 100 years ago. But J. M. Barrie’s classic story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up – and girl whose family insists she must – has never been realized onscreen. Until now.
Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios are proud to present the first live-action feature film version of Peter Pan since the silent era. And for the first time, a boy – Jeremy Sumpter – stars in the title role, opposite Jason Isaacs as Captain James Hook. In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers nightly with bedtime tales of swordplay, and the fearsome Hook.
But the children become the heroes of an even greater story when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life free of grown-up rules, while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.
(Clockwise from top center) Lost Boys Curly (George Mackay), Tootles (Rupert Simonian), Nibs (Harry Eden), Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter), Slightly (Theodore Chester), and the Twins (Patrick Gooch and Lachlan Gooch) in Peter Pan.
Imagine a world like nothing you’ve ever seen, where every day is an adventure, where you never have to grow up or grow old. That’s the world of Peter Pan, the clanging swords of furious rivals, the quivering plank of the Jolly Roger, the transcendent thrill of flying, and the magical power of a hidden kiss.
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Directed by: P.J. Hogan
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Sumpter, Ludivine Sagnier, Olivia Williams, Rachel Hurd Wood
Screenplay by: Michael Goldenberg
Production Design by: Roger Ford
Cinematography by: Donald McAlpine
Film Editing by: Garth Craven, Michael Kahn
Costume Design by: Janet Patterson
Set Decoration by: Kerrie Brown
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: PG for adventure action sequences and peril.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: December 25, 2003
