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With the success of live-action movies for Cinderella and Maleficent, Disney has announced that it will shoot a new movie starring Tinker Bell. This character originates from the beloved play, Peter Pan.

Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon has signed on to play the titular role. In addition to her acting duties, Witherspoon will also serve as a producer for this project.

Here’s more from The Hollywood Reporter: “Initially a minor and nonspeaking character in J.M. Barrie’s Pan story, Tinker Bell has, since her appearance in Disney’s 1953 classic animated feature, become one of the symbols of Disney and is at the center of the lucrative Disney Fairies franchise. Peter Pan’s fairy companion has typically been portrayed as a temperamental character who can become dangerously jealous due to her unrequited love for the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up.” (via Variety.com)

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Warner Bros. Pictures has unleashed a second trailer for Pan. The video embedded above offers glimpses of Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard, Amanda Seyfriedas Mary, Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, Garrett Hedlund as Hook, and Levi Miller as Peter Pan.

According to Deadline.com, the theatrical release date has been scheduled for October 9th. Click here to download a free digital copy of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. (via movieweb.com)

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Which children’s do you find moving? The team at Quotery.com has created an infographic called “20 Inspiring Children’s Book Quotes.”

These beautiful words come from a variety of titles including Roald Dahl’s Matilda, J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone. We’ve embedded the full infographic below—what do you think?

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NBC plans to adapt J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan as a live musical.

Academy Award winner Christopher Walken has landed the role of villain Captain Hook. Hollywood veterans Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have signed on as producers.

Here’s more from The Hollywood Reporter: “Based on James M. Barrie’s revered book and musical, NBC’s new take, which hails from Universal Television, comes after the network in 1955 staged a live broadcast of the Broadway production of Peter Pan that opened in 1954. The show, starring Tony winners Mary Martin and Cyril Richard drew 65 million viewers — the highest rating for a single night program at the time.”

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The Finding Neverland movie has inspired a musical adaptation. The story follows famed playwright J.M. Barrie and his friendship with a family that lead him to write the Peter Pan stories. TheaterMania reports that Jeremy Jordan will take on the lead role of Barrie. Diane Paulus served as the director. Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy worked together to compose the score. The American Repertory Theater, based in Massachusetts, will showcase this production from July 23rd to September 28th. What do you think?

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What’s your favorite kind of book? We’ve created a giant flowchart to help you browse the top 50 free eBooks at Project Gutenberg.

Click the image above to see a larger version of the book map. Your choices range from Charles Dickens to Jane Austen, from Sherlock Holmes to needlework. Below, we’ve linked to all 50 free eBooks so you can start downloading right now. The books are available in all major eBook formats.

Follow this link to see an online version of the flowchart, complete with links to the the individual books.

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Here's a quiz:  which of these three things could you purchase for £1?




The answer is not that particular candle or that pair of reading glasses, but rather Moat Brae in Dumphries, Scotland.  

That was the sum for which The Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust paid for this beautiful, dilapidated Georgian villa.  But as anyone who has ever bought an old house can tell you, it's the cost of repairs that really get you.   A fundraising effort, spearheaded by Joanna Lumley, has succeeded in securing a grant from Historic Scotland but the effort continues with the eventual goal of turning the site into a national centre for children's literature.


While J.M. Barrie never lived in this house he did spend significant time there as a child and was to later say of the place:

When the shades of night began to fall, certain young mathematicians shed their triangles, crept up walls and down trees, and became pirates in a sort of Odyssey that was long afterwards to become the play of Peter Pan. For our escapades in a certain Dumfries Garden, which is enchanted land to me, was certainly the genesis of that nefarious work [Peter Pan].

I've always had an interest in writers houses; I like to think of the leopard print carpet on the stairs of Edith Wharton's house The Mount and I would like to live in something like the house Robison Jeffers built.  But somehow even more interesting are the houses that inspired novels.  The House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Mass. is a living monument to the novel of that name and it's nice to know  it may soon be possible to visit  0 Comments on Enchanted Land as of 1/1/1900