Director Gary Ross stepped away from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire saying he had a more personal, better paying project he wanted to work on. That project seems to have been put on the backburner, as he’s now in talks to take on Disney’s Peter and the Starcatchers, according to THR.
The film is a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan, following Peter, who meets a young girl named Molly on a Neverland ship. Molly tells Peter about a trunk of magical ‘starstuff’ that must never be retrieved by ‘Black Stache’, the name Captain Hook went by before losing his hand. Peter and Molly set off on an adventure to keep this mystical substance out of the nefarious pirate’s hands.
The project was first set up at Disney way back in 2005, when Jay Wolpert was hired to adapt the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. After years of languishing in development, in May Jesse Wigutow was hired to write the screenplay. The tale has already become a Broadway play, which took home five Tony Awards earlier this year.
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