SyFy has commissioned a new TV miniseries called Neverland which is a prequel to the Peter Pan story. Neverland will star Rhys Ifans, Bob Hoskins and Anna Friel.

Production on Neverland is due to start next week in Genoa and Dublin. The finished product will air with two ninety minute TV episodes. Welsh actor Rhys Ifans will play James Hook while Bob Hoskins will play Smee, the same character he played in Steven Spielberg’s own take on the Peter Pan story; Hook.

Here’s the official synopsis from SyFy…

“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 (Raoul 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.”

Nick Willing, who directed another SyFy mini-series Tin Man (which itself was a prequel to a classic children’s story) has bagged himself both writing and directing duties. Neverland is due to hit our TV screens sometime next year.

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