Re: Peter Pan Confirmed To Be Played by a New Male Actor

I think there’s always been that hidden edge to the character of Peter Pan, as others have said, that dark side of childhood. We sometimes glamorize how kids are, as all sweet and innocent and forget that we often do call bad behavior “childish” or “immature”.

If they do make Peter permanently stuck and unable to grow up because of magic, I could see how he might eventually come to want to rid the world of magic to be free of his curse. If they bring in some of the themes in Tuck Everlasting (a novel, which Disney turned into a movie), it could soften his background story, but still leave him as dangerous. Basically focus on the idea that the magic took him out of the natural order of life and he wants to return to it.

While I was googling to try to remember the title of that novel, I stumbled on this one, about Peter Pan. This novel sounds remarkably like the theories we are kicking around….The Child Thief. That’s the page on Amazon. I haven’t read it–the reviews make the details sound way too dark for where OUAT would go with it. Just interesting because maybe the writers have seen it so would avoid anything too close to that story.

HappyEndings–that’s an interesting idea–we’ve all assumed that the HO are puppets of Pan, but it could be the other way as well.