The new “Peter Pan” was directed by David Lowery and stars Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson. In addition to Jude Low as Captain Hook, we will see m.in. Yara Shahidi as Tinkerbell. The actress has already made history as the first black woman to play the beloved fairy of little viewers and readers.
“Peter Pan and Wendy”. There’s the Tinker Bell affair
The new film will once again take viewers to Neverland, where the forever young Peter Pan battles Captain Hook and his pirates. The trailer shows, among other things: flying ship, mermaids and lost children. This time we will be dealing not only with lost boys, girls also appear in the picture, which is surprising to Wendy herself. There are also references to the classic animation from 1953, for example in the scene where kids jump from Big Ben to fly to a fairy-tale land. The film will premiere on April 28 on platform +.
The director notes: “Hundreds of amazing artists have spent many years bringing our film to the screen. I am very excited that audiences will have the opportunity to see their work and discover a classic story told from a new perspective,” he reports.
“Peter Pan” is yet another live-action version of classic Disney animations – the studio has previously produced “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “Mulan”, “Pinocchio”, “The Jungle Book”, “101 Dalmatians”, “Alice in Wonderland” in this way. magic”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Winnie the Pooh”, “Aladdin” or “Dumbo”. A new one is also waiting for its premiere
After the premiere of the trailer for “Peter Pan and Wendy”, as is usually the case in such cases, the choice of the cast caused the most excitement. As we read in the comments: “Peter Pan is now a dark-haired and colored boy. However, the Malcontents do not notice this and focus all their frustration on Tinker Bell, which only proves that they do not pay attention at all when a person of color other than black is cast It’s the black actors in the cast that make them mad,” one viewer commented on Twitter. Another person notes: “For the next two weeks, grown men will complain about the fairy race and pretend that they are defenders of Peter Pan” – recalls the portal
Others complain: “Disney doesn’t care about creating new stories with colored characters at all. They just cast colored actors as white characters, which shows how lazy and how racist they are, because they think that colored viewers don’t deserve own stories (except for three cross animations)”. A similar scandal broke out when it was announced that Halle Bailey would play the mermaid Ariel.
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Source: Gazeta
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