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Who cares when they come out? You don't have to watch them at at once. I swear people get pussy hurt for no reason.
Since Gary Ross dropped out of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, he kicked the tires on a bunch of projects. He has now firmed up the Disney film Peter And The Starcatchers as his next directing vehicle. Ross has lost interest in directing The Secret Life Of Houdini, a project that Summit Entertainment is putting together. They never got as far as making a deal with Ross.
Ross is squarely focused on Disney’s adaptation of the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and the studio is waiting for a new draft of the Jesse Wigutow script that is scheduled to be delivered in October. The film hasn’t been budgeted, but Ross hopes to direct it as his next film as quickly as possible in 2013. The film is in spirit a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, a fantasy pirate adventure full that starts when Peter leads a group of orphaned boys sent to work as servants for King Zarboff. He winds up on a ship with Molly, who intrigues him with a story of how she is an apprentice Starcatcher, a group that collects “starstuff” that falls to Earth and gives power to those who find it. They must keep it away from the pirate Black Stache, as well as the king. The tale was already turned into a Broadway production.
A Ross commitment puts Disney into what just might be the only major fairy tale the studio isn’t making a revisionist movie of, and it also puts them in competition with Sony, which has Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor attached to Neverland, a Pan pic scripted by Billy Ray and produced by Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin, and Joe Roth and Palek Patel.
Ross’s The Hunger Games grossed $685 million worldwide and is flying off shelves in the just released DVD. He dropped out of making the sequel because Lionsgate insisted on moving at an accelerated pace he wasn’t comfortable with.
Thanks to Chopsaki for the submission.
Who cares when they come out? You don't have to watch them at at once. I swear people get pussy hurt for no reason.
Redhairs, fairy tales are hot now like comic book movies. There is money in them there "Once Upon a Times". They are pre-sold since everybody grew up on them, so they can either be family-friendly or made more adult-oriented. Also, they are usually public domain but I believe Pan is still copyrighted. Profits for using it go to a children's hospital in England that Barrie willed it to.
I also really liked the Peter Pan prequel that ran on SyFy.
I don't have an issue with "Once Upon a Time" stories. I'd even say let's see more of them. Just don't see the need in releasing the same basic stories within a month or 2 of one another. Space it out over a couple years at least.
Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman may have made their budgets back, but the tanked domestically.
Wise, I'll second your 3 Little Pigs idea. Have you have read "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs?" It's told by the Big Bad Wolf. Good stuff.
Wise & Redhairs, search youtube for the movie trailer The Brick House. There's your 3 Little Pigs done in a unique way. It's an independent film set in modern times with actors in make-up but done in a film noir style. It's like the fairy tale mixed with No Country For Old Men. I'm curious to see it.
I saw the Pan prequel and I enjoyed it. If this is done well, I'm up for it.
Peter Pan has had his day in the sun; time to bring other classics to the big screen like Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod who could be a$$ kicking sea serpent hunters. Or Humpty Dumpty who is a base jumping maniac who finally meets his match when he base jumps off a 70,000 foot high mountain on a moon of Saturn.
Why do we need to have 2 or 3 movies about the same damned thing out at once? First, Snow White, now Wizard of Oz and now again with Peter Pan! Didn't SyFy already do a prequel to Peter Pan? It was one of their more enjoyable mini-series as I recall.