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rockfenris2005 03:34 am UTC 03/18/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Who would you like to see star in the Bat Musical? - Pudding 12:29 am UTC 03/18/07 |
I agree with Pudding in the sense that it's not the '77 show. It's not "The Dream Engine". When Jim was trying to produce "Neverland" as a motion picture, he gave this description (courtesy "The Phenomenology Of Excess, Sandy Robertson): QUOTE: "The city is destroyed but rebuilt as a mediaeval fortress with chrome on the outside to protect it from gases. The only people left are the military and the church who join forces. Hook marries the Mother Superior...The reason they both have hooks is this enormous duck-billed platypus that they were experimenting with was mutated and one night they fell asleep and it ate both their hands! Since that day it's wanted the rest of them, but instead of the clock in the crocodile ticking as a warning, it's a geiger counter!" Naturally, instead of the kindly dog Nana to protect Wendy from the scavenging lost boys outside, the creature is a slavering mastiff with a surprise: "it's the ultimate guard dog. It has a smaller version of itself inside." And in this tale, Tinkerbell is a warrior deaf-mute trained to kill. And Peter? "Peter's a great character. He's been 16 for 75 years and he's totally out of his mind. He's running out of new things to do. The lost boys are always on edge. It's got a real chilling ending too, just like the original. They were trying to create a race of soldiers who never age and it ended in the lost boys' genes being frozen. They don't know how the mutation happened, so they're always trying to catch them and dissect them, Hook and his men." As in Barrie, Peter eventually comes to rescue Wendy, 40 years on. And she's too old. That's rock 'n' roll..." I know it's probably changed since then but that, already, is a lot different to "Neverland". It's basically an explicit sci-fi version of the original Barrie play / book | |
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