Syfy Re-Imagines Peter Pan

Syfy announced today that it will begin production next week on it’s Peter Pan prequel, titled Neverland, according to Examiner.com.

The four-hour project will star Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) as James Hook and Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) as Captain Elizabeth Bonny. Oscar nominee Bob Hoskins will reprise his role as Smee, a character he play in Hook, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the beloved children’s story. Charlie Rowe (Pirate Radio, The Golden Compass) will play the role of Peter Pan.

Nick Willing will write and direct Neverland. Willing also worked on Syfy’s Tin Man, a story in the world of Wizard of Oz, and the Emmy-nominated Alice, a re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland.

Neverland will be filmed in Geneo, Italy and Dublin, Ireland.

Syfy published a description of the show in a press release issued on September 1. You can read the press release in its entirety after the jump:

“Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter (Rowe) and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they've been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a priceless--some believe, magical--treasure which transports them to another world.

Neverland is a realm of white jungles and legendary mysteries of eternal youth, where unknown friends and enemies snatched from time welcome the new travelers with both excitement and trepidation. These groups include a band of 18th century pirates led by the power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Friel), and the Native American Kaw tribe led by a Holy Man (Trujillo), which has protected the secret of the tree spirits from Bonny and her gang for ages--and that has meant war.

But as the fight to save this strange and beautiful world becomes vital, Hook, Peter, and the ragamuffin lost boys consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up--right here in their new home called Neverland.”