‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ trailer sparks Disney nostalgia with live-action update of animated classic - "Where is Peter Pan?" - well he sure ain't in this movie

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Alexander Molony in 'Peter Pan & Wendy.'

(CNN) — The trailer for Disney’s “Peter Pan & Wendy” – based on the Mouse House’s 1953 animated classic “Peter Pan” – dropped on Tuesday, and it certainly presents a movie that looks far more inclusive than past retellings of the original J.M. Barrie tale.

“But you’re not all boys,” Ever Anderson’s Wendy Darling says to a group of kids in Neverland who tell her they’re the “Lost Boys” in the clip.

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Ever Anderson in 'Peter Pan & Wendy.'

Those kids are, in fact, not all boys. Two girls then appear on screen to respond to Wendy’s observation with a simple and spirited, “So!?”

“Blackish” star Yara Shahidi is also seen in the trailer as Tinker Bell, Peter’s fairy friend who accompanies him and the Darlings through Neverland. Shahidi is the first Black woman to portray the tiny fairy on screen.

The movie also stars Alexander Molony in his feature film debut as Peter Pan, and Jude Law as a very creepy-looking Captain Hook, who is seen in the trailer sporting his signature hook, red coat and twisted mustache as he asks Wendy, “Where is Peter Pan?”

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Yara Shahidi in 'Peter Pan & Wendy.'

The trailer shows all of the classic figures from the ’53 film, including the Darlings’ beloved dog Nana and a faithful representation of John Darling (Joshua Pickering) in his top hat and rounded spectacles.

An aerial view of the mermaids shimmering and splashing in the sea beneath Wendy and her brothers, who are soaring the skies above, is shown in the trailer. And Tiger Lily, played by Alyssa Wapanatâhk, is seen telling Wendy, “Hold the past in your heart, but where you go from here is up to you.”

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Alyssa Wapanatâhk in 'Peter Pan & Wendy.'

From the 1991 cult classic “Hook” starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman and Julia Roberts to NBC’s 2014 “Peter Pan Live” telecast starring Allison Williams and the 2015 “Pan” film, Peter Pan and Wendy’s adventure is a story that’s been previously visualized on screen in countless ways.

The new “Peter Pan & Wendy” presents an inclusive version of the classic tale, one that blends Pan’s fantasy world into a landscape for today.

“Peter Pan & Wendy” will begin streaming on Disney+ on April 28.

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Man this is hilarious. Did you know that classically, Peter Pan is occasionally played by a girl? Reason being is that there are very few boys that have the body type described in the book. It isn’t controversial at all, and is an easy win.

They threw it away for this. :story:

This is too amusing, they had it all lined up for an easy girl power moment literally no one with any common sense would bat an eye at and they tossed it for forced racial diversity.
 
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The whitest "closet racist" liberal opinion is that POC cant see themselves in white characters and vice versa. Thus they gotta replace originally white characters so they can "relate".

Mfs never heard of anime and its large presence in the black community, huh ? Everyone loves Goku, no matter their skin tone because they havent been raised to be political narcissists

You want to tell POC stories? Fine! Then fucking do it. They get white people stories and paint them brown. Its a disfavor to white people because their culture is being culturally appropriated (its ok when they do it) and its a disfavor to POC because you are saying that THEIR stories have no worth and thus they need to be forced into white people stories.

And all this talk about white and black people when what will truly bring us together are timeless stories that we can all look up to. Im very sure that there were POC boys back then that saw themselves in Peter Pan despite him being white because true creativity transcends race.

But then again, why am I trying to find logic in what Disney does these days. Clearly it aint money that motivates them anymore. This is being dumped to Disney + so I guess this is the modern "straight to DVD", thus Disney has no much faith in this project I think.

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Why are they still doing this live action shit? Who is the intended audience for this? I genuinely don't understand the thought process "let's make that thing that everybody loves again but objectively worse in every way". It's not like the other live action films have done well either, I think the last one I heard anybody talk about IRL was Lion King.
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Most people that talk about the Lion King remake these days is just how inferior it is to the original. It banked on nostalgia and it worked because the average consumer has the brain of a moth to a flame.
And you ask why but Im starting to think that there is no why, because they arent doing it for the sake of money but for the sake of historical and cultural revisionism. They want THIS version to be the one that is the most easy to access and thus shape the mind of the youth.

People dont understand that weaponising the youth has become the new battleground
 
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The thing that always bothers me is that you cannot cast a POC character as white. But the other way is just fine. Therefore this is all extremely unbalanced. When it becomes fair I think people won't mind as much.
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What bothers me is that these people don't seem to think you can't be diverse by having say multiple stories that has certain types of people/characters. Just look at Disney's line of animated movies during its "renaissance" period. First you have Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Two stories based on an European folktale or short story. Then you have Aladdin based on Middle Eastern culture/literature; Mulan very loosely based on Chinese history and culture; Pocahontas very loosely based on American History concerning essentially a sort of class of civilizations (in this case the Old World of Europe vs the New World of Native Americans); and on and so forth. They tried to do something different with different kinds of settings, cultures, and people with perhaps the sole exception of Atlantis : The Lost Empire where they actually decided to have a more racially diverse cast.

Now, however, everything pretty much has to be the same. With the exception of say the live-action Mulan, every iteration has to have a racially diverse cast no matter what. It's so absurd.
 
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Disney plus originals are just the modern version of straight to dvd
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Most of the straight to dvd and vhs was absolute trash but I remember liking a couple of them. I bet this is an attempt to save face because they’d lose a ton of money in theaters if this was released.

Funny enough I don’t think anyone would’ve cared if this happened in 2010. It’s just that people are tried of the same ole lazy bull shit.
 
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Man this is hilarious. Did you know that classically, Peter Pan is occasionally played by a girl? Reason being is that there are very few boys that have the body type described in the book. It isn’t controversial at all, and is an easy win.

They threw it away for this. :story:

This is too amusing, they had it all lined up for an easy girl power moment literally no one with any common sense would bat an eye at and they tossed it for forced racial diversity.
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A lot of stage places used to switch men and women depending on the performance and the role. It could be for comedic effect or the right actor for the part who plays well off others in the stage. A woman playing Peter pan in front of young children wasn't political and she was always intended to be taken as a boy not a girl in the roll. Same way the huge muscle bound ugly step sister was a woman in the play but a butch man playing her wasn't a sex swap but a traditional part of the show.


No one got mad at that because it was a silly stage play and the actors respected the roles. Everyone understood and enjoyed the show. This is not that.
 
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I see they now have a trailer out for the new Haunted Mansion film... and yes you guessed it all the characters are black.

I realize the family in the previous Eddie Murphy one were black, but I thought we are being told we dont need to follow source material or previous versions. Im just so confused???????
 
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