PAN

[jo]

The casting choices for PAN have been interesting, to say the least. We know that the casting of Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily has been controversial, but it seems that Joe Wright is also going against conventional wisdom on the Peter Pan characters by casting a non-Caucasian for the very brief part ( only two lines in the script) of Wendy Darling --

www.imdb.com/name/nm6450769/?ref_=tt_cl_t9

She looks quite a charmer, based on the photo.

Leni was cast at the same time as Amanda Seyfried and the other featured roles.


Jo

[jo]

At Wimbledon, Hugh's facial hair has grown much longer -- is this for PAN or has he been enjoying an extended weekend and the makeup department has not been around to give him a trim.



Someone has pointed out that he is beginning to look like John Malkovich now, who is currently playing a much older Blackbeard character.

Jo

[jo]

An account of a neighboring structure housing the world's largest aircraft, close to where PAN is being filmed.

www.theverge.com/2014/7/8/5880061/airlander-10-photo-essay

To house the world’s largest aircraft, you need an enormous hangar and that’s exactly what the historic Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire provides. The Airlander resides behind the emerald-green doors of Hangar 1, which HAV shares with Warner Bros. Pictures. The filmmaking company also owns the nearby Hangar 2, where the new Peter Pan movie starring Hugh Jackman is currently being shot. Not to be outdone by the scale of their neighbors’ venture, the WB producers have apparently constructed a full-scale pirate ship for the movie.

Hmm... "The Jolly Roger" and " Queen Anne's Revenge" are both ships featured in the movie

So, this is not going to be a CGI ship like the one featured in the opening shot of Les Miserables! Wow!

[jo]

In his last tweet/instagram, Hugh seems to have already said "Ciao" and "Grazie" for his trip to Florence...and now back to filming for PAN.

Trevor Monk ‏@cardingtonsheds · 13h
#ff @dailybeds @gaz11h @churchillsgirls @bedshndphotogs @realhughjackman @lovebedford @thewyebird pic.twitter.com/t0OJkz5ChZ

PAN filming is using one of the huge building sheds to house its sets, including the full-scale pirate ship.


Jo

[foxie]

Deb looks great but hate the Pan look!

[JH4HJ]

Jul 12, 2014 17:04:51 GMT -5 foxie said:

Deb looks great but hate the Pan look!

I have to agree. This is not an attractive look - not even on Hugh.
All things being equal at this point, I would deem the project unwatchable.  

Suggestion? Hugh should do the whole movie with a hat ON, and his shirt OFF.
There you go, Foxie. Problem solved!   

[alma]

I don't know, but... as everything about Hugh, it's starting to "grow" on me...

I don't love EVERY picture of him with his Pan look, but those from Wimbledon? Swoon!!! Those first ones with a dark suit and the other ones with Deb and in the light suit?... sigh!

Not that I'd like him to keep this look forever, but I'm just not so shocked or against it anymore...

smiley-love067

Certainly always... kissable.

Alma

[jo]

The Wimbledon photos did a lot to publicize the movie!

Btw, there seems to be much interest in the pirate tales and related stories surrounding Peter Pan. Isn't there a current TV series on Blackbeard? The NBC musical is expected to be aired in December of this year ( check out the update on the casting in the OFF-TOPIC section). Broadway is also talking about the possibility of the transfer of the West End musical adaptation called "Finding Neverland". And PAN will be released in July, 2015.

Hugh will surely be carrying this movie, at least in terms of promoting it ...He has already done a lot in introducing the new look of Hugh Jackman/aka Blackbeard


Jo

[jo]

LOL - Hugh is making fun of his own look

Hugh Jackman @realhughjackman · 6h

At the Discovery Centre. My true, secret identity.

http://instagram.com/p/qZR-zxihH0

[jo]

It seems he visited the UK's Discovery Centre --

[jo]

Since the film originates from an English tale, the characters are mostly English, part of the story happens in England, the creative team ( director et al) are English, and filming is taking place in England, will the English accent be used? Or will it be generic as this is intended for worldwide release?

From an old interview re Kate and Leopold ( I have to rewatch it and confirm if he did put on an English accent in the movie -- can't remember now) --

Q & A with Hugh Jackman on the filming of Kate & Leopold.

Q: To perfect the accent, did you stay in character off-camera?

HJ: To be honest, the accent was one of the things I was most nervous about because - and I don't want to offend anyone here - in Australia, upper-class English men are never portrayed as the likeable leading man. They're usually something else - I won't go into it - but, growing up, that was my experience. The accent wasn't that hard for me to do, because my father's English, from Cambridge, and my mother's English. I'd been in England a lot. So, I got the sound right, but my dialogue coach said I also sounded as if I had a carrot up my you-know-what, as if I was JUDGING the character, which I WAS. So I stayed with the accent - not the character, the accent - for about two weeks at home. It drove my kid crazy, because I was reading him stories in that voice. It certainly drove my wife crazy.

[jo]

In the movie where we fell in love with Hugh Jackman -- is Leopold's accent Brit enough?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpSlJaP2sHw

(Note: At 1'10", Leopold meets then-budding actress Viola Davis)


And here's another instance when Hugh was supposed to have an Englsh accent, as the aristocrat Peter Lyman in SCCOP. It is not very pronounced but there is just a hint of it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8LiPKDW83Q#t=116

Jo

[suefb]

Don't forget about Roddy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rQou6f2i6s

[foxie]

In k&l it is an aristocratic accent!

[jo]

The mermaid's tail is computer-generated - LOL!

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/cara-delevingne-miffed-mermaid-role-3916487

[jo]

I wonder if Hugh knows that his good friend and mentor Sir Trevor Nunn rewrote and staged ( together with John Caird) a new version of PETER PAN, with the Royal Shakespeare Company?

www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=889

The Royal Shakespeare Company relished in the phenomenal success of this new version of the classic tale painstakingly researched and restored by Caird and Nunn to Barrie's original intentions. "…a national masterpiece." —London Times. "…we have a resonant and beguiling fantasy that boasts as much spectacle as any child could wish; and that, at the same time, touches on the double Barriesque tragedy of growing up into conformity or being marooned indefinitely in the Never Land." —The Guardian (UK).

johncaird.com/theatre/peter_pan_rsc_1.html

Peter Pan


or

The Boy Who Would Not Grow UP

A Fantasy in Five Acts

RSC

By J. M. BARRIE
Adapted by John Caird and Trevor Nunn


This was a new adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company based on a wide variety of J. M. Barrie’s original source material. It was first performed at the Barbican Theatre on 11 December 1982 and ran through the Christmas season until 22 January 1983.

It was subsequently revived for the RSC Christmas seasons of 1983/4 and 1984/5.

The first staging was before Trevor Nunn and John Caird discovered and staged Les Miserables, representing the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh.

[foxie]

i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/29/article-2709097-2014449A00000578-389_634x626.jpg

[jo]

Trust the talkative Cara to break Joe Wright's moratorium on talking about the movie - LOL!


www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/cara-delevingne-promises-to-be-mermazing-in-movie-pan/story-fnk825dz-1227014805399

“This is gonna be seriously MERMAZING! #PAN,” she captioned the picture on Instagram.

Check out the link for a filming scene with the Mermaid ( on a green screen )!


Jo

[jo]

If they are filming according to sequence - they must be more than halfway through the movie now, based on the script

SPOILER: Click to show

If I remember correctly, the encounter by Peter with the mermaid happens past the halfpoint and more towards the last act of the storyline

Hugh seems to be able to eke out an extra day or so from filming, when he goes on his weekend jaunts to other places.

[jo]

LOL - Cara D's publicist must be earning his/her keep by publicizing something which was much-ado-about- nothing smiley-rolleyes010

www.tv3.ie/entertainment_article.php?locID=1.803.810&article=142282

I've seen the news item duplicated in a few media outlets ( one even incorrectly identified Rooney Mara as a fellow mermaid - LOL!).

*It was as if Cara has a big role -- it is small featured role and does not even have a speaking part ( if the script is to be followed strictly)
*I am sure filmmaking knows to cope when delays caused either by natural reasons ( rain, etc) or other contingencies happen, even if the actor featured is the lead!



I think Joe Wright should start allowing some teaser pics, as there has been a real dearth of news, except for all the Hugh coverage re his unusual hairstyle ( or lack of it) and much-commented facial hair

Interesting that on other fronts Peter Pan- related projects are now much discussed on media --

*On Broadway, there is much speculation on how the Harvey Weinstein-sponsored stage adaptation of FINDING NEVERLAND will fare. He had the entire creative process for the London premiere scrapped!
*The NBC live musical based on the Mary Martin original stage musical PETER PAN is now underway with its casting ( Christopher Walken as Hook, Allison Williams as the actress portraying Peter, Christian Borle as Smee/Mr. Darling).


As the origin movie, PAN, is planned as a blockbuster release, maybe Joe Wright will soon share some inside images with us ?


Jo

[jo]

A small update from the SouthChinaMorningPost.com interview ( see seation on Multi-topic Interviews) --

Q: How do you enjoy shooting the film Pan?

A: The film is ten weeks on the shooting and I’ve only shot about two weeks. So I’m really just beginning my little run at them, but I’m loving it, enjoying it, enjoying no one recognizing me as well.

I wonder if they filmed most of the scenes which would not require him first, so he can be free for his other commitments? Also, the movie seems like more of an ensemble cast, with Hugh ( Blackbeard), Levi Miller ( Peter), Gareth Hedlund ( young James Hook) and Rooney Mara ( Tiger Lily) as the main characters, with Amanda Seyfried as Mary ( a featured but an important role).

Jo

[jo]

Someone responded to Hugh's latest tweet/instagram( with the double rainbow)

Duncan Smith
‏@edward036 @realhughjackman is that at the grove?

So, is Hugh billeted at The Grove, a country estate type of hotel ?




*Its amenities include being a neighbor to the Warner Bros studios which is available for tours ( it was home to the filming of the Harry Potter series for a decade...and also home to the filming of PAN
*It's near London ( 18 miles)
*It has excellent amenities for kids...and a spa.
*It has a championship type of golf course ( maybe Ian Rickson, Laura Donnelly and Cush Jumbo came to visit him and why they had that photo on the greens?)

*Maybe it was where he had seen the double-rainbow







Jo

[suefb]

Aug 12, 2014 14:58:39 GMT -5 jo said:

So, is Hugh billeted at The Grove, a country estate type of hotel ?

Yes, they've been there all summer, aside from his various world travels!

[jo]

Hugh Jackman @realhughjackman · 7h

Spending time in Neverland. pan @wbpictures

http://instagram.com/p/rw9D2UChNu

[jo]

It looks like they are allowing Hugh to sneak in some insider images from PAN --

Hugh Jackman @realhughjackman · 2h

Words maketh the man, swords maketh the pirate. #Blackbeard pan @wbpictures

http://instagram.com/p/ry8bYgChLe