The only successful Peter Pan movie was a success for reasons almost unrelated to it being a Peter Pan movie. It earned $300 million worldwide and has become a generational classic for those who saw it when they were younger than ten. It STILL wasn’t considered much of a hit, since it “only” earned $119 million (just $6 million more than The Addams Family one month earlier). Oh, and it was also directed by Steven Spielberg (the most famous director in the world) and starred Robin Williams (in ironically his first kid-friendly biggie since Popeye), Dustin Hoffman and Julia Roberts 1.5 years after breaking out in Pretty Woman.
Hook was released in December of 1991, when movies of that size and scale were almost unprecedented and where a $70 million budget made it one of the most expensive movies of all-time. The one successful live-action Peter Pan movie we’ve got was Hook. Despite a much higher profile and something resembling star power (Hugh Jackman as the evil Blackbeard), the film flopped even harder than Peter Pan. and friends gave Joe Wright $150 million to make a “how Peter met Hook before Hook was a villain” prequel. However, lacking real star power, opening against the final Lord of the Rings movie and beset by a ridiculous pre-release handwringing that equated the film with promoting pedophilia (because, like in the book, Wendy thought Hook was kind of hot and Peter thought Wendy was really hot), the $100 million Universal release didn’t take flight.ġ2 years later, Warner Bros. Barrie novel, starring Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Ludivine Sagnier, is probably the best Peter Pan movie we’re ever going to get. Hogan’s live-action adaptation of the original J.M.
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