Line #17 Trivia/Hook


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2	* ActingForTwo: Besides Captain Hook, Creator/DustinHoffman is very briefly seen as Peter's father in a flashback. It's only a FreezeFrameBonus in the final film, but a deleted scene from the flashback showed this more clearly. It's a MythologyGag to the traditional casting of Hook and Wendy's father with the same actor.
3	* ActorSharedBackground: Like Peter Banning, the late Creator/RobinWilliams was a longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area.
4	* AllStarCast: Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/MaggieSmith, Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/BobHoskins and cameos from Music/PhilCollins, Creator/CarrieFisher, Creator/GlennClose and Creator/GeorgeLucas. And thanks to RetroactiveRecognition, Creator/DanteBasco and Creator/GwynethPaltrow in a minor role.
5	* AuthorPhobia: Like Peter at the beginning of the film, Creator/StevenSpielberg has a fear of flying.
6	* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, Hook was voiced by film and television actor Takao Ito and the older Wendy Darling was voiced by the late actress Tokuko Sugiyama.
7	* ChannelHop: Creator/StevenSpielberg started developing the project at Creator/{{Disney}}, then it went to Creator/ParamountPictures, then it eventually went to Creator/TriStarPictures.
8	* CreatorBacklash:
9	** Since the release of the film, Spielberg has admitted in interviews that he was not proud of it and was disappointed with the final result.
10	*** In 2011, he told Entertainment Weekly: "There are parts of Hook I love. I'm really proud of my work right up through Peter being hauled off in the parachute out the window, heading for Neverland. I'm a little less proud of the Neverland sequences because I'm uncomfortable with that highly stylized world that today, of course, I would probably have done with live-action character work inside a completely digital set. But we didn't have the technology to do it then, and my imagination only went as far as building physical sets and trying to paint trees blue and red."
11	*** In a 2013 interview on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review Show: "I wanna see Hook again because I so don't like that movie, and I'm hoping someday I'll see it again and perhaps like some of it."
12	*** In a 2018 Empire interview: "I felt like a fish out of water making Hook... I didn't have confidence in the script. I had confidence in the first act and I had confidence in the epilogue. I didn't have confidence in the body of it. I didn't quite know what I was doing and I tried to paint over my insecurity with production value. The more insecure I felt about it, the bigger and more colorful the sets became."
13	** Music/PhilCollins had some about his cameo as the police officer - mainly because of the amount of publicity it was getting. He claims he feared at the time people would mistakenly think he had a bigger role, and would assume it was cut down because he wasn't good enough.
14	* CreatorBreakdown: Creator/JuliaRoberts was going through a mental breakdown after her wedding to Creator/KieferSutherland was called off. She reportedly fled California and hid out in Ireland until Spielberg himself threatened to fire her if she didn't return immediately. Additionally she had to be hospitalized at one point for nervous exhaustion. Her behavior throughout the shoot gave her the crew nickname of "Tinkerhell" and Spielberg said he'd never work with her again.
15	* CutSong: According to lyricist Leslie Bricusse, this film was written as a musical, but due to length and budgetary concerns this was dropped, and only two songs are sung onscreen -- "We Don't Wanna Grow Up" as part of the school play and "When You're Alone" by Maggie in Neverland (explained as a lullaby her mom taught them). The happy-whimsical theme that plays throughout and closes the film's action was originally the melody of a song titled "Childhood", which later appeared in a sheet music anthology of Bricusse songs. (Lyrics and a fanmade recording are available [[http://www.jw-collection.de/songs/hook3.htm here]].)
16	* DawsonCasting: The majority of Lost Boys were played by kids of ten or eleven, with Rufio being played by a teenager to emphasize his role as the leader. However Creator/JamesMadio - who played Don't Ask - was actually fourteen and only a couple months younger than Creator/DanteBasco. Gwyneth Paltrow was also around eighteen when she played Wendy in a flashback to her childhood (but then of course continues to play Wendy as she grows older).
17	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/RobinWilliams had his infamously hairy upper body shaved for this film.
18	* EnforcedMethodActing: Only Creator/RobinWilliams and Creator/StevenSpielberg knew who Peter [[spoiler:would give his sword to at the end]], so the reactions of the Lost Boys are genuine.
19	* FakeBrit: Creator/GwynethPaltrow as the young Wendy in a flashback and Creator/DustinHoffman as the titular Hook.
20	* FriendshipOnTheSet: Steven Spielberg and Robin Williams became very good friends during production and remained close for the rest of Williams' life.
21	* HostilityOnTheSet:
22	** By all accounts, Creator/JuliaRoberts made life on the set a nightmare. Already going through a messy breakup with her then-fiance Creator/KieferSutherland which led to her suffering from depression and caused her to go and hide out in Ireland ''in the middle of production'' and she only came back because Creator/StevenSpielberg threatened to fire her if she didn't. Upon returning, she proceeded to complain about everything from the script to her outfit (which at one point was to more closely resemble [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan the Disney Tinker Bell's]] appearance, complete with a blonde wig, only for it to be changed after she became furious with it.) Also, her final scene where she was full-size came about from a WagTheDirector moment where she demanded to appear onscreen with at least one other actor due to her frustration at having filmed all of her previous scenes in greenscreen. The end result lead to her career being stunted for a while, the crew to nickname her "Tinkerhell" and for Spielberg to vow never to work with her again.
23	** Creator/RobinWilliams and Creator/DustinHoffman developed a playful rivalry onset. When Hoffman halted the filming of one scene because he lost his motivation, Williams quipped, "Why don't you try acting?" (Which was a GeniusBonus reference to what Laurence Olivier, who disliked method acting, had told method actor Hoffman on the set of ''Film/MarathonMan'' after Hoffman continued to demand retakes, unhappy with his performance) After Williams flubbed a line and started speaking gibberish, Hoffman looked to a camera and quipped, "Well, what did you expect from [[Series/MorkAndMindy Mork?]]" Williams did the next take perfectly and said to Hoffman, "Hey, ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'''s on TV tonight".
24	* InspirationForTheWork: Screenwriter Jim Hart got the idea when his son showed him a drawing.
25	-->We asked Jake what it was and he said it was a crocodile eating Captain Hook, but that the crocodile really didn't eat him, he got away. As it happens, I had been trying to crack Peter Pan for years, but I didn't just want to do a remake. So I went, "Wow. Hook is not dead. The crocodile is. We've all been fooled". In 1986 our family was having dinner and Jake said, "Daddy, did Peter Pan ever grow up?" My immediate response was, "No, of course not". And Jake said, "But what if he did?" I realized that Peter did grow up, just like all of us baby boomers who are now in our forties. I patterned him after several of my friends on Wall Street, where the pirates wear three-piece suits and ride in limos.
26	* KidsMealToy: UsefulNotes/McDonalds sold bath toys of Peter Pan, Captain Hook, a Mermaid, and a Lost Boy in their Happy Meals.
27	* MidDevelopmentGenreShift:
28	** This was intended to be a musical, but according to lyricist Music/LeslieBricusse, the filmmakers realized it would be both too long and too expensive, so most of the songs were cut ("We Don't Wanna Grow Up" and "When You're Alone" the exceptions). The happy instrumental theme that closes the film was originally the melody of a song called "Childhood", and a sheet music anthology of his work includes it, with the explanation that everyone loved it but couldn't think of a way to keep it in the film.
29	** Creator/RogerEbert pondered why Creator/StevenSpielberg just didn't make a proper adaptation of Peter Pan. Funnily enough, that ''was'' the original plan. This version would have followed the storylines of the 1924 silent version and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan the animated film]] and at one point was going to be a musical starring Music/MichaelJackson, who was interested, but didn't like the idea of a grown-up Peter Pan who's forgotten about his past. He abandoned the idea when his son Max was born.
30	-->I decided not to make Peter Pan when I had my first child. I didn't want to go to London and have seven kids on wires in front of blue screens. I wanted to be home as a dad.
31	* MissingTrailerScene: The original teaser trailer. Not only is the content of said trailer an example of this (the shot of the hook raising up in the air is not in the finished product), but the music was specifically composed by Music/JohnWilliams for the teaser and never plays in the final cut.
32	* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Creator/StevenSpielberg, known for his great rapport with child actors, also had a difficult time dealing with the Lost Boys due to them being so rambunctious on the set. Years later, Spielberg joked that it almost made him consider not having any more children.
33	* TheOtherMarty: Creator/BrendaFricker was originally cast as Granny Wendy before being replaced with Maggie Smith for unknown reasons.
34	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MaggieSmith - who up to that point usually played mean old ladies - as a sweet grandmotherly type.
35	* RealLifeRelative:
36	** All of Creator/DustinHoffman's children have cameos in the film. Max Hoffman plays Peter at five years old. Jake Hoffman is a little league player at Jack's game. And Rebecca Hoffman plays Jane in the play at the start.
37	** Screenwriter Jim Hart's eleven-year-old son Jake plays one of the Lost Boys.
38	** In the European French dub, the voice actors of Robin Williams and Julia Roberts, Creator/MichelPapineschi and Creator/CelineMonsarrat, were married.
39	* ReferencedBy:
40	** ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' has reviewed the LicensedGame for the [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] by Sony Imagesoft and Ocean Software as part of his review of games based on Steven Spielberg movies.
41	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} (1993)'': In "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode47 Video Revue]]", Captain Hook appears on the cover of ''Hook'' as the Warners sing about the various movies in the video store. At one point, Wakko sings "''[[Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle The Hand That Rocked the Cradle]] once belonged to Hook, you see, but it got bored and so it joined Film/TheAddamsFamily!''"
42	** ''WebVideo/ConsoleWars'': In one episode, Pat and Dan see whether the [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] or the Platform/SegaGenesis had the better [[VideoGame/{{Hook}} video game adaptation]].
43	** The Music/{{Skrillex}} song "Bangarang", whose lyrics ("Shout out to my lost boys/we rowdy") and music video are a homage to Peter Pan in general, took its name from the Lost Boys' battlecry in this film.
44	** ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventures'': The boss of stage 2-3 is a pirate captain who resembles Captain Hook. This was most likely a homage to ''Hook's'' portrayal of him, as the game came out the same year as the film.
45	** ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
46	*** In "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS2E8BusterAndBabsGoHawaiian Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian]]", Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman, respectively dressed as Peter Pan and Captain Hook, make cameo appearances outside the WB studio.
47	*** In "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E6TheReturnOfBatduck The Return of Batduck]]", Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell bothers Plucky when he is trying to read a map of the sewers so that he can sneak into the Warner Bros. film studio. He swats her into a wall, and she says "That's what I get for taking small parts." Later, when Plucky makes it into the WB film studio, he comes across Dustin Hoffman, dressed as Captain Hook, who is arguing with Danny [=DeVito=], who is dressed as The Penguin, over who is shorter.
48	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/StevenSpielberg started developing the project in the early eighties, started pre-production in 1985 and abandoned it in 1987. Production re-started in 1989 and it was finally released in 1991.
49	* StarDerailingRole: Was a brief one for Creator/JuliaRoberts, along with ''Dying Young''. She was nominated for a Worst Supporting Actress Razzie award and didn't make another film for two years - save for a cameo in ''Film/ThePlayer''. When she returned to acting regularly, her films didn't do well until ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'' provided a CareerResurrection for her.
50	* ThrowItIn: James Madio revealed that his Lost Boy didn't have a name at first, and he kept badgering Steven Spielberg about it until one day the director replied "don't ask". It caught on with the child actors, and he got called that during the food fight scene. Thomas Tulak in a Reddit Q&A suggested that the character was originally going to be called 'Pockets'.
51	* TroubledProduction: Shooting went 40 days over schedule, the budget went over by by 50%, and Creator/JuliaRoberts was going through depression at the time, making it difficult to work with her.
52	* UncreditedRole:
53	** Creator/GlennClose has an uncredited cross-dressing Cameo as the pirate Captain Hook locks in a chest as punishment for betting against him.
54	** The kissing couple that was briefly lifted into the air by Tinker Bell's pixie dust were Creator/GeorgeLucas and Creator/CarrieFisher. Fisher also served as an uncredited script doctor, mainly polishing Tinker Bell's lines. The below was one she came up with as well.
55	--> "You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you"
56	* UnderageCasting: Creator/MaggieSmith was only 56 at the time of filming, and plays Granny Wendy at 92 under old age make-up. But in a flashback to Peter meeting Moira, Wendy's age matches hers at the time (since she's played by Creator/GwynethPaltrow in it).
57	* WagTheDirector: The scene where Tinker Bell grows to human size was written to appease Creator/JuliaRoberts - who demanded that she have at least one scene with another actor (having to act alongside green screen for the whole film).
58	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
59	** Apparently, Music/DavidBowie was considered for the role of Hook only for Bowie to turn it down. Carrie Fisher was also the original choice for Tinker Bell. She ended up doing some uncredited rewrites of the script and cameoed alongside George Lucas as the kissing couple on the bridge as Tink and Peter fly above them.
60	** Creator/KevinKline was originally cast as Peter, but ''Film/{{Soapdish}}'' reshoots scuppered this.
61	** Creator/ChristopherLloyd and Creator/DonaldSutherland were considered for Captain Hook.
62	** Creator/DannyDeVito, Creator/RichardDreyfuss (who was interested in the production), and Creator/JoePesci were considered for Smee.
63	** Creator/StevenSpielberg originally asked Creator/RichardAttenborough to play Tootles. Attenborough declined, as he was directing ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' at the time.
64	** Creator/RebeccaDeMornay, Creator/SherilynFenn, Creator/SamanthaMathis, Creator/MegRyan and Creator/WinonaRyder were considered for Tinker Bell.
65	** Creator/PeggyAshcroft was considered for Wendy.
66	** Jack was, according to rumours, originally meant to be a fat kid. An obese pre-teen who loved baseball and had grown fat after his father had grown distant from him and he'd turned to food; the original beginning was meant to show Jack struggling to get into trousers and the ending was supposed to show him skinny (well, skinnier!) enough to get into them and that Neverland had brought Jack and Peter together and allowed Jack's life to improve.
67	** According to Thomas Tulak, who played one of the youngest Lost Boys, Tinker Bell's costume was originally completely different. He recalls Julia Roberts wearing a blue sequinned dress and blonde wig - and storming onto the set to complain about it.
68	** In the [[http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/hook1.pdf original]] [[http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/hook2.pdf draft]] of the script, Peter and Moira were in their thirties as opposed to forties. Maggie was also younger, being only a child of five. Spielberg aged up the parents to reflect the feeling of the aging baby boomer generation. Maggie was bumped up to seven to match her actress Amber Scott's age. Peter also wasn't an emotionally AbusiveParent ChildHater to his kids, he was simply an overworked, stressed man. There was originally a much bigger role for the mermaids, and Tiger Lily herself was set to have had a large role in the film. The original script was also more adult in tone, complete with mild swearing and child slaves. [[spoiler:Hook's fate in this version is ambiguous. He appears to be going down with his sinking ship but then he and Peter collide "in a tremendous thundering burst of energy" before the script abruptly cuts back to the nursery in London.]]
69	** Creator/JosephMazzello auditioned for Jack, but he was determined to be too young for the part. Spielberg promised to cast him in a future project, which he fulfilled with ''Film/{{Jurassic Park\|1993}}''.
70	** Creator/{{Sony}}'s Dolby Digital/DTS counterpart, ''Sony Dynamic Digital Sound'', was supposed to debut with this movie. But for whatever reason, it got delayed and ended up premiering with ''Film/LastActionHero'' instead; SDDS wasn't popular and has since been largely discontinued.
71	** Phil Collins's scene ran longer, according to his autobiography, and was cut down to what's seen in the film. Apparently, Dustin Hoffman found it inferior and urged it to be cut down.
72	* WordOfGay: Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins ended up deciding that Hook and Smee were actually gay, and opted to play them that way.
73	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Screenwriter Jim Hart claimed he based the Peter Banning on his Wall Street friends.

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