‘Neverland’ Coming to Syfy

SyFy has announced that they are bringing Nick Willing’s ‘Neverland’ to the small screen. ‘Neverland’ is Willing’s original prequel to the classic Peter Pan tale. Production will take place in Genoa, Italy and Dublin, Ireland, and the movie will be a four-hour event. Set to star in the film are Rhys Ifans as James Hook, Anna Friel as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Bob Hoskins as Smee (who previously played the character in Steven Spielberg’s feature Hook), Raoul Trujillo and Charlie Rowe as Peter Pan. The plan is to air the movie in 2011. Here is a synopsis of the story:

Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they’ve been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook 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, and the Native American Kaw tribe led by a Holy Man, 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.