Director Joe Wright (Atonement) is hard at work on a new origin story-ish movie for Captain James Hook, one that aims to do for the good Captain what Wicked did for Oz’s witch. In this iteration, Hugh Jackman will play the famed Blackbeard, who kidnaps children from their homes and whisks them away on his flying ship. He takes a rather suspiciously named “Peter” (played by Levi Miller) and we’ll see where things go from there. As for James Hook himself, he’s neither captain nor hooked in this movie, but is played by Garrett Hedlund as what Entertainment Weekly calls a “dashing Indiana Jones-like figure.”
If that sounds up your alley, you’ll be able to see it next July. If you’re in the mood for something more traditional, there’s another Peter Pan story you might want to tune into …