“I guess comes from anyone in a position that has to vocally command others, has to have a certain sense of confidence in their presence and their voice, and I certainly felt that responsibility talking to and rousing this awesome motley crew of men and women,” Law told Rotten Tomatoes. But according to Lowery, the Eton influence was used as “backstory” to produce a Hook with new relationships to Neverland and his Jolly Roger crew.ĭespite that setup of a new take on the character, though, Hook is still theatrical and flamboyant. Since the character’s earliest appearances on stage - and Barrie’s novelization of the play - Hook had mannerisms and affectations that mark him as a student of Eton College, a private academy for the upper echelons of the British society. “Once I started treating them as human beings who have these rich backstories, who have these feelings, who have these emotions, all of those elements came into play in a very centrifugal way.”Īnd emerging from that centrifuge is a Captain James Hook who may seem different from previous iterations. “You’re going to want to know why they are the way they are, how they got to where they are,” Lowery continued. That led to a reinvention of the Darlings - after a fashion - a focus on Wendy ( Ever Anderson) inspired by Barrie’s 1911 novelization of the play, and a greater emphasis on the how of Peter ( Alexander Molony) and Hook ( Jude Law). “But then I realized I was robbing myself of my own natural curiosity about these characters, and a better approach was to treat them not as icons, but as human beings you naturally are going to want to know more about.” “Let’s see how concise we can make this story because it is so well-told,” he explained. As director David Lowery told Rotten Tomatoes, building the tale in a new way and expanding upon it quickly became a facet of the production as he developed it. Every so often, the characters get an infusion of new interest thanks to films like the 1953 Disney animated film, Peter Pan, and, the studio hopes, its latest offering Peter Pan & Wendy, debuting Friday on Disney+.īut make no mistake, the film is more than just a live-action rendition of the animated film. Barrie’s 1904 Peter Pan stage play, the characters and Peter’s world of arrested development have captivated generations of kids, former kids, and parents alike. Since Peter Pan and Wendy Darling first adventured together in J.M.

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