Step Up…** Stop-Loss**… Public Enemies… G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra… Peter Pan? Nope, still can’t quite see it ourselves, but apparently Channing Tatum has a hankering for all things Neverland. Or at least, he’s joined a team that includes writer/director Billy Ray and literature adaptation-obsessed producer Joe Roth to shop around a project that carries the working title Peter Pan Begins.
According to the Heat Vision blog, details are scarce, but the trio is pitching the idea to studios about Ray writing and Tatum starring in a story about how the boy who never grew up got his start. We doubt Tatum would actually play Pan himself, though it’s always possible there’s some magical de-aging involved at the end of the story. Either that, or he’s got a hankering to strap on a pirate’s costume to play the man who will be Captain Hook…
Roth seems to be committed to getting every fairy story or fantasy book up on the screen following his success with Alice in Wonderland last year. He’s behind Oz, The Great and Powerful, which has Sam Raimi directing and James Franco attached to star, and Snow White and the Huntsman gearing up at Universal with Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart as the leads.
Ray, meanwhile, is the man who made Breach and Shattered Glass and has been even more in demand as a writer, bashing out the scripts to **State of Play **and The Hunger Games, as well as uncredited polishing on many more movies.
This is certainly an intriguing one, and we’ll keep our beady eye on it…