So it appears SONY have paid big money for the Channing Tatum film 'Pan'. Which is a re-telling/beginning of 'Peter Pan'...

 

Every piece of classic literature is getting a reboot these days and it was foolish to think Peter Pan would buck the trend. Last week, a pitch went out for a package called "Peter Pan Begins" with Channing Tatum attached to star, screenwriter Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) writing the script, and Joe Roth (Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland) producing. Because audiences must know Peter Pan's origin story, the pitch ignited a bidding war and Heat Vision reports that Sony Pictures came out on top to the tune of about $1 million. We still don't know much about the pitch, which is now titled "Pan" (so there goes the title for my Spanish-language drama about satyrs who bake bread), but Hv says that the prequel envisions Peter Pan and Captain Hook as brothers. Let me guess: Hook is jealous that Peter got to stay a kid. Wonderful.

Taken from IMDB.

 

What do you think about these real life action, re-tellings of older childhood classics? Such as 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Beauty & The Beast', 'Peter Pan' etc...? Why is it they seem to be coming all at once?

 

'Red Riding Hood':

 

'Beastly':

 

 

If they touch on 'Lion King', I think I may have to cut a few people! :manson: Having said that, 'Red Riding Hood' does actually look pretty decent and is what 'Twilight' tried to be... and 'Beastly' looks rubbish/corny, but I will have to watch it just for Neil Patrick-Harris! :lol:

Both of them just look like Twilight rip offs. Although both will most likely be nowhere near as bad as THAT.

If they genuinely manage to come up with something approaching the originals then I have no objection, but if it's all done in the name of profit by exploiting copyright-expired literature then they can get stuffed. Plus there is already the pretty stark lesson of 'Hook' out there - if the 'sequel' was that bad then what chance does the 'prequel' have?

Don't forget Sucker Punch! Which is apparently 'Alice in Wonderland with guns'.

Is that an Olsen Twin playing the witch?

I'm looking forward to both the movies in the first post. Saw the trailer for 'Beastly' today when I went to see 'I Am Number Four' and thought it looked really good. Plus I'm a fan of both Neil Patrick Harris & Alex Pettyfer (who is pretty fit, though probably not as much in this movie).

 

Is that an Olsen Twin playing the witch?

 

Mary Kate, yes.

If they touch on 'Lion King', I think I may have to cut a few people! :manson:

 

This.

 

Can't wait for The Lion King to be released on Blu-Ray this autumn :w00t:

There is also a re-telling of a live action Pinocchio in the pipeline.

 

Personally they should be left alone, I love the old animated Disney movies.

Yeah but 'Red Riding Hood' looks like an interesting 'Angela Carter-style' take on it, it looks pretty interesting imo.

The 'Red Riding Hood' tale will be never be bettered than when done as The Company Of Wolves. A film that actually understands the original fairytales subtext.

 

Oh and by the way that was worked on by Angela Carter

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Yeah but 'Red Riding Hood' looks like an interesting 'Angela Carter-style' take on it, it looks pretty interesting imo.

I'm pretty sure it'll just be a poor Twilight rip off :P.

Oh and by the way that was worked on by Angela Carter

That's what I meant by the comparison ;D Will have to check out The Company of Wolves if it's anything similar to Caters 'the bloody chamber'.