Disney Developing Live-Action PETER PAN Film with Director David Lowery
Disney Studios is continuing their streak of turning their animated classics into live-action feature films. Deadline reports that the studio is developing a live-action Peter Pan film, and they've hired Pete's Dragon director David Lowery to direct it from a script being written by Toby Halbrooks. Lowery is best known for his heavy, dark drama Ain't Them Bodies Saints, but he's soon going to be known as the guy who directs light-hearted family Disney movies.
Like many of you, I'm a fan of the 1953 animated Disney film. Since then we've seen several different incarnation such as Steven Spielberg's Hook and Joe Write's Pan, which sucked and completely bombed at the box office. If anyone can recapture the magic of J.M. Barrie's literary character, though, it's Disney. From what I've seen of Pete's Dragon, it looks great, and I'm sure that he'll bring that creativity with him to Peter Pan.
There's no way that Disney's version of Peter Pan will be any worse than Pan. I assume that the film will be patterned after their animated film just like they've done with all of their other live-action adaptations. After all, that is the version of Peter Pan that most people are familiar with.
Before Lowery gets to Peter Pan he will direct Robert Redford in The Old Man And The Gun about an aging thief who in the 1980s knocked off a lot of banks in throwback style and became a folk hero outlaw.
Are you excited about seeing Disney make a live-action Peter Pan film?