This is the story of peter pan and james hook got to where they are today from hooks point of view. Hes very charming, which is why wendy and tinker bell are both attracted to him, and why the lost boys follow. In hook, caroline goodall played moira banning, granddaughter to wendy darling and wife of peter banningwhos actually peter pan, though he doesnt remember it at the start of the film. Captain james hook is a fictional character, the main antagonist of j. Though many peoples first thought is the disney movie, it is actually based off of j. Hook 1991 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Do we really need a whole movie where theyre allies, but keep making. Well look no further than pan, a serial killer script based onpeter pan where the good guy is captain hook im not sure you can get anymore original than that. Peter pan 1953 directed by hamilton luske, wilfred. Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, wendy, michael and john follow peter pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. Maybe there should be a moratorium on peter pan movies without his name in the title. Sure, there were a few corny parts in this movie, but they were actually kind of funny. Hook was trying to return the children the whole movie. Nathan likes me being chased by tick tock the crocodile which captain hook has a fear on him.
Also, hook got lonely and sick of everyone in his crew either dying or leaving him, and he managed somehow to get smee immortal. And after all, bardem has had great success recently. The story begins when jim is a boy and peter pan flies through his let me start off by saying that i am a huge peter pan fan. Because captain hook is the bad guy from peter pan and peter pan and the lost boys called captain hook a codfish because peter pan wanted for captain hook and his pirates to gone forever and ever. A variety of things suggest peter pan is capable of offing his compatriots.
In the movie, hook, peter pan now peter banning has a wife and children. Barrie, which was first staged in 1904, and focuses on an alternative origin story for peter pan and captain hook. At the end of the disney movie, wendys father says he recognizes the ship. He is seeks revenge on peter banning also known as adult peter pan by kidnapping his kids, and eventually attempts to get his kids to like him. In the original peter pan story, hook is the main antagonist, but in this version, pan, he is peter pan s ally who eventually betrays him, and he becomes very similar to the captain hook in the original story. Comment from discussion in peter pan, hook is the actual good guy maybe pan isnt that specific with how he gets rid of the boys, but you get the point. Finally a movie that exposes peter pan for the kidnapping.
It makes total sense that javier bardem has been offered the villain role in the upcoming warner bros. The relationship between peter and hook isnt explored in any capacity. Captain hook is in the movie, too, but hes a good guy, and hints about his future turn toward villainy and the loss of his hand are among the dispiriting signs that a. He is essentially selfisheverything he does is for the sake of his own enjoyment. It is an origin story of peter pan and captain hook the general story of the movie now showing in cinema is the history of the famous peter pan, and how he originated. He wears a big iron hook in place of one hand, which was cut off by peter pan and eaten by a crocodile. Peter pan movie, a decision deadline recently reported. The movie is a bit violent for younger kidsthere is a lot of battle action in this movie between pan and the tribal warriors and captain blackbeards crew.
Barries peter pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in hook. It is debatable as to whether he was actually the good guy or not. For hook fans, the movie still holds a place as one of the great familyfriendly adventure films of its erabut even if the movies still as. With dustin hoffman, robin williams, julia roberts, bob hoskins. Since peter pans eu expired in 2008, reimaginings and remixes of the story have flourished, including most recently christina henrys lost boy. The film serves as a prequel to peter and wendy from scottish author j. What kind of screwed up individual thinks this shit up. In the original peter pan story, hook is the main antagonist, but in this version, pan, he is peter pans ally who eventually betrays him, and he becomes very similar to the captain hook in the original story.
It stars hugh jackman as a fictionalized version of blackbeard, garrett hedlund as hook, rooney mara as tiger lily, and. My best friend nathan tolson is a fan of peter pan, he plays the good guy and i played the bad guy and we were non stop quoting the lines from this amazing disney movie. Pan is the terrible peter pan prequel no one asked for the atlantic. The whole concept for this movie was actually intriguing. Pan is a 2015 american fantasy film directed by joe wright and written by jason fuchs. Pan opens with an 11 year old boy getting yelled at by his mom for being afraid of the dark. In peter pan, is it possible that hook was the good guy. The only version i can think of that is worse than wendy is. Hook never turns evil, nor does he lose his hand, and the film. Obviously, he was once a lost boy, who went and joined hook, and hook decided it. Hook is a 1991 american fantasy adventure film directed by steven spielberg and written by james v.
Captain james hook and the curse of peter pan says it all. The new film pan tells the familiar story of peter pan. When hook and peter first met in the mines, james hook is also one of the forced miners who are working for blackbeard to find fairy dusts. Many fans have adopted the notion that captain james hook is actually the good guy as peter pan is the antagonist, with the ideas that many of hook s pirates are actually exiled lost boys who escaped peters gang or the boys who found the truth of peters true evil intentions towards them and so hook promised them a better future in his crew.
The 3d movie starts out during wwii and tracks an orphan boy levi miller who is kidnapped by pirates led by blackbeard hugh jackman who spirit. Pan is the origin story of peter pan, featuring blackbeard as the main villain and captain hook as a nice young man. In the new movie, he has a real name and really hates the smee moniker. The film has a dismal 23 positive on rotten tomatoes. It saddles peter pan, the archetypal boy who could never grow up, with a. Peter pan is not necessarily a hero, as he kills pirates. Barries play peter pan, or the boy who wouldnt grow up and its various adaptations. He is the villainous captain of the galleon jolly roger, where he commands a crew of pirates through guile and others fear of him. Captain james hook and the curse of peter pan by jeremiah. He would have been an utter delight to pans sensibilities, the perfect grown man to. The references to the pan lore always seem to stop the movie dead in its tracks.
Disney begins search for lead actor for liveaction peter pan remake speculation time. Ships are demolished, hook is beat up bad, and there is mild blood. Peter pan has become peter banning robin williams, a 40yearold mergers and acquisitions lawyer. Pan was intended as the first salvo in a new series pan 2 is already marked on imdb as being in development, and would probably have dealt with the origins of. Peter tries to show them how great it is staying at neverland, however when the children see peter pans enemy captain hook they begin to miss being home and have peter take them back. With levi miller, hugh jackman, garrett hedlund, rooney mara. Hook foresaw the great potential of the pixie dust and let zarina think she had the authority over pirates. A movie so bad, so resoundingly rotten in every way, that you should absolutely leave the house this weekend and pay good money to see it. If captain hook as a good guy doesnt prove that pan veers from.
Pan proposes peter and captain hooks origin stories. It stars robin williams as peter banning peter pan, dustin hoffman as captain hook, julia roberts as tinker bell, bob hoskins as mr. Captain hook is in the movie, too, but hes a good guy, and hints about his future turn toward villainy and the loss of his hand are among. When captain james hook kidnaps his children, an adult peter pan must return to neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy. Twenty years after the events of disneys peter pan movie, captain hook is banished on the.
Peter pan may have a dark secret you didnt know about. Joaquin phoenix could play captain hook in disneys live. Peter pan is a boy who never grows up and lives in a magical place called neverland and has a best friend named hook and. But peter pan defeated him, and decided to return the children anyway.
He was portrayed by dustin hoffman, who also played mumbles in. Twelveyearold orphan peter is spirited away to the magical world of neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny to become the hero who will be for ever known as peter pan. Pan meets up with james hook, who, in this prequel is an indiana jones good guy throughout the film. It takes a movie such as pan to make you realise that oz the great and powerful. He doesnt know what his heritage is, but eventually finds out that he is the son of a prince and a pixie mother. An oral history of hook from rufio and the lost boys. Pan is the terrible peter pan prequel no one asked for. The movie not to be confused with sonys pan or disneys peter and the starcatchers is an origin story based on the mythology created by j.
Captain hook is peter pans enemy because he cut his hand offsimple. Today isaac discovers captain hooks full story and why he despises peter pan. Pan is an 2015 britishamerican fantasy film directed by joe wright. But while in neverland, the kids must face captain hook and foil his attempts to get rid of peter for good. It stars hugh jackman, garrett hedlund, rooney mara, amanda seyfried, and levi miller as the titular character. Starring robin williams as peter banning, the man who grew up to forget he was peter pan, hook is the movie that made a lot of kids fall in love with williams before they knew him as the genie in.