Headscratchers / Pan

• Why isn't Blackbeard Hook ? He displays many characteristics that would perfectly fit the character of Hook, and even says Hook's common line of "Good Form", and yet Hook here is just in-name only who suffers from Adaptational Heroism and who is upgraded to Tiger Lily's love interest.
  • Because the constant stream of Peter Pan prequels seem to think they're being really clever by having Pan and Hook as friends, because it supposedly makes it all the more poignant (or something) when they inevitably turn against each other.
  • There is some merit to this in the original books. Pan frequently changes sides during fights between the Lost Boys and pirates, just to liven things up.
• I know Hook becomes the villain, but how? I mean he gets the ultimate happy ending. He gets the girl, has a purpose, and good friends to boot. What could possibly go wrong might be tempting fate, but it still doesn't make sense to me.
  • Obvious sequel hook (no pun intended), we were supposed to leave the theater asking exactly that, how James Hook and Peter Pan went from best buddies to bitter friends. The movie flopped hard and won't generate any sequels, so the answer to that question is lost.
  • Apparently, he doesn't. It was meant to be a "twist on the traditional Peter Pan story."
  • They were intending to make this a franchise, with about six films planned. Presumably they didn't want to go down the route of Oz the Great and Powerful by turning one of their future villains evil right away.
• Leni Zieglmeier was supposed to play Wendy Darling. What happened?!
  • I'm not sure. I assume that Wendy would have only appeared in the climax, setting up the real story of Peter Pan. In the original book, Neverland is created by her stories that she tells to her brothers - so maybe that was the ending they were going for. And they'd planned several films, so presumably Wendy would have featured in them. But with this being such a bomb, obviously that put a kibosh on those plans.
• In the beginning, Peter and the other boys in the orphanage all get kidnapped by pirates. At the end, Peter and the gang come back to the orphanage and take the orphans to become the lost boys. When did they get back to the orphanage?
  • They're not the same boys. There's a war on. That means lots of orphans.

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