One of the biggest box office bombs there’s ever been makes a timely swoop to rehabilitate its reputation
The revolving door of rebooted IPs continued spinning this weekend when Disney Plus premiered Peter Pan & Wendy, which marked the third big budget adaptation of the source material to arrive in the last 20 years alone. While none of the trio will be regarded in the future as classics, it’s safe to say that Joe Wright’s Pan will always be known as the worst.
In theory, the filmmaker behind several acclaimed prestige pictures including Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Hanna, and Darkest Hour making the leap to studio fare with a revisionist $150 million retelling of a story everyone knows inside out sounded like an enticing enough prospect, and there was also the presence of a supremely talented cast to increase expectations.
The revolving door of rebooted IPs continued spinning this weekend when Disney Plus premiered Peter Pan & Wendy, which marked the third big budget adaptation of the source material to arrive in the last 20 years alone. While none of the trio will be regarded in the future as classics, it’s safe to say that Joe Wright’s Pan will always be known as the worst.
In theory, the filmmaker behind several acclaimed prestige pictures including Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Hanna, and Darkest Hour making the leap to studio fare with a revisionist $150 million retelling of a story everyone knows inside out sounded like an enticing enough prospect, and there was also the presence of a supremely talented cast to increase expectations.
Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please contact us by email – [email protected]. The content will be deleted within 24 hours.