Peter Pan Reimagining Neverlanders to Be Adapted as an Animated Movie

While Peter Pan adaptations are thing caller successful the movie world, fans of the franchise volition privation to support an oculus retired for the latest Pan task coming from Australia's Pixel Zoo Animation Studios. Pixel Zoo has acquired the rights to Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva's critically acclaimed YA graphic caller Neverlanders.

Both creators volition beryllium intimately progressive successful the improvement of this animated movie adaptation, with Taylor penning the screenplay and Sommariva attached arsenic creation director. Pixel Zoo Head of Studio Sebastian Gonzalez volition executive-produce the film.

Released successful 2023, Neverlanders puts a caller rotation connected the Peter Pan mythos. In this mentation of the gritty communicative (which decidedly skews to the older extremity of the YA spectrum), Neverland is wracked by chaos arsenic a caller pirate villain wages warfare against Tinker Bell and her fairy army. With Pan missing and astir of the Lost Boys dead, it falls connected the sole survivor, Paco, to enlistee a miss named Bee and her friends to prevention his home. Together, they'll go a caller procreation of Lost Ones.

You mightiness besides admit Taylor from his different comics enactment similar DC's Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel bid and Marvel's All-New Wolverine. Taylor antecedently journeyed into animation with The Deep, which is presently successful its 4th season. Sommariva's past enactment includes Batman/TMNT Adventures and Star Wars Adventures.

“It has ever been important for Pixel Zoo to champion talent, archetypal stories and world-class animation successful Australia, truthful we are thrilled to spouse with the superb Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva," Gonzalez said successful a statement. "Our squad volition enactment intimately with Tom and Jon to guarantee we enactment existent to the psyche of Neverlanders portion expanding the graphic caller into the benignant of cinematic escapade lone animation tin deliver.

There's nary connection connected a merchandise day oregon manager for Neverlanders conscionable yet. The sequel comic, Neverlanders: Get Lost, volition beryllium released successful 2026.

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