Tagline: The timeless story as you’ve never seen it before.
A haunting tale of adventure and dreams, Peter Pan has thrilled audiences around the world since it premiered on a London stage 100 years ago. But J. M. Barrie’s classic story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up – and girl whose family insists she must – has never been realized onscreen. Until now.
Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios are proud to present the first live-action feature film version of Peter Pan since the silent era. And for the first time, a boy – Jeremy Sumpter – stars in the title role, opposite Jason Isaacs as Captain James Hook. In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers nightly with bedtime tales of swordplay, and the fearsome Hook.
But the children become the heroes of an even greater story when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life free of grown-up rules, while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.
Peter Pan is a 2003 American-British-Australian fantasy adventure film released by Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and Revolution Studios. It was the first authorized and faithful film or television adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up in half a century, after Disney’s version in 1953.
P. J. Hogan directed a screenplay co-written with Michael Goldenberg which is based on the play and novel by J. M. Barrie. Jason Isaacs plays the dual roles of Captain Hook and George Darling, Olivia Williams plays Mrs. Darling, while Jeremy Sumpter plays Peter Pan, Rachel Hurd-Wood plays Wendy Darling, and Ludivine Sagnier plays Tinker Bell. Lynn Redgrave plays a supporting role as Aunt Millicent, a new character created for the film.
Peter Pan earned $48,462,608 at the box office in the United States and another $73.5 million outside the US, which brings the worldwide total to nearly $122 million. It faced competition from the highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King released the week before, and Cheaper by the Dozen, which opened on the same day.
Peter Pan (2003)
Directed by: P.J. Hogan
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Sumpter, Ludivine Sagnier, Olivia Williams, Rachel Hurd Wood, Lynn Redgrave, Richard Briers, Jeremy Sumpter
Screenplay by: Michael Goldenberg
Production Design by: Roger Ford
Cinematography by: Donald McAlpine
Film Editing by: Garth Craven, Michael Kahn
Costume Design by: Janet Patterson
Set Decoration by: Kerrie Brown
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: PG for adventure action sequences and peril.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures (United States), Columbia Pictures (International)
Release Date: December 25, 2003
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