Behind the Scenes Featurette for PETER PAN & WENDY Offers Insight and New Footage

Disney has released a new behind the scenes featurette for director David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy, and it offers some great insight into the film and what this creative team brings to this new adaptation. It also features a good amount of cool footage!

With The Green Knight director David Lowery’s involvement with the movie, I’m pretty confident that this is going to be a wonderful new adaptation of the classic story. He explains in the featurette that he “really wanted to investigate the new way of looking at the story.” It’s the story of Peter Pan through the eyes of Wendy.

The video features interviews with the cast and crew as they talk about how this movie will be expanding upon the story we know from Peter Pan. Jude Law, who plays Captain Hook, explains that the movie explores what the feud between Peter and Hook started.

Peter Pan & Wendy is the timeless tale of “a young girl who, defying her parents’ wishes to attend boarding school, travels with her two younger brothers to the magical Neverland. There, she meets a boy who refuses to grow up, a tiny fairy and an evil pirate captain, and they soon find themselves on a thrilling and dangerous adventure far, far away from their family and the comforts of home.”

Lowery previously talked about his vision for the film saying he wanted to make “The Revenant with flying kids.” He added: "I hesitate to use the word grounded because it has fairies and flying children in it. But when I went to talk to the studio about it I was like 'What if we stay true to the original material, remove the problematic elements of both the novel and the animated film of course, but then treat it like The Revenant. What if we made The Revenant with flying kids?' And they were into it. It’s not 100% like that but it’s sort of the ethos by which we’ve gone about making it....That was sort of the idea, have it be visceral, have it be grounded, it’s still joyful, it’s still full of exuberance and magic, so that’s why I don’t like to use the word ‘grounded.’”

Lowery also said: “In making Peter Pan & Wendy, we set out to craft a film that honors both the original J.M. Barrie text and Walt Disney’s animated adaptation; we wanted to invigorate our retelling with emotional sincerity, an open heart, and a grand yearning for adventure. Hundreds of incredible artists spent many years bringing this film to the screen; I’m excited for audiences to see their work, to go on this ride, and to rediscover an evergreen tale from a new perspective.”

The film stars Ever Anderson as Wendy, Alexander Molony as Peter Pan, Jude Law as Captain Hook, and Yara Shahidi is playing Tinker Bell in the movie. It also stars Molly Parker as Mrs. Darling, Alan Tudyk as Mr. Darling, Joshua Pickering as John, Jacobi Jupe as Michael, Alyssa Wapanatank as Tiger Lily, and Jim Gaffigan as Smee.

The movie hits Disney+ on April 28th, 2023.