Peter Pan & Wendy will feature a complex Hook, director David Lowery teases

Hook in Peter Pan & Wendy
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David Lowery is returning to the Disney live-action realm for Peter Pan & Wendy, following on from 2016's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pete's Dragon.

The cast includes Ever Anderson as🍃 Wendy and Alexander Molony as Peter Pan, but Lowery's film has an ace up the sleeve of its billowing pirate coat in the form of Jud🌞e Law, who plays crocodile-fearing sea dog Captain Hook.

 in the latest issue, which features Fast X on the cover. "Where does that anger come from? We did our best to build out a story for the two characters, and a sense of history, and a sense of mythology."

But why Law? "You want someone who can lean into the moustache-twirling when it's appropriaꦺte but then also break your heart when you need that to happen as well," Lowery smiles. "I can't think of anyone better to straddle those two things in the same way that he straddles the crocodile's jaw." Oh, snap! 

Lowery also reveals more about his take on Peter and Wendy, point🐈ing out that "the story ultimately is, and always✅ has been, Wendy's," even calling Pan "incidental" to Wendy's journey.

"I really wanted to do something different with Peter," he says. "Peter, in the animated movie, tricks us into thinking that we like him. But he's an incredibly unlikeable character𝓰! In our film, he is very serious, to a fault, about what🦂 he thinks is the most important thing in the world, which is not growing up. It becomes a sticking point between him and Wendy."

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Jordan Farley
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