Disney Developing PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Film

As first reported by Deadline.com, Walt Disney Pictures is beginning development on a PETER AND THE STARCATCHER movie with writer Jesse Wigutow (The Crow).

Read the original report here.

Broadway's PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, based on the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pierson, boasts nine Tony Award nominations and acts as a prequel to the original Peter Pan story.

This news comes just after the Broadway show set its national tour launch for August 2013.

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, by Rick Elice, directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers began preview performances on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Wednesday, March 28 and opened April 15th.

The cast, led by Adam Chanler-Berat as Boy, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Molly and Christian Borle as Black Stache, also features Teddy Bergman, Arnie Burton, Matt D'Amico, Kevin Del Aguila, Carson Elrod, Greg Hildreth, Rick Holmes, Isaiah Johnson, David Rossmer, Betsy Hogg, Orville Mendoza, Jason Ralph and John Sanders.

In this innovative and imaginative new play, based on The New York Times best selling Disney-Hyperion novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, a company of twelve actors plays more than a hundred unforgettable characters, all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter Pan become The Boy Who Never Grew Up? This epic origin story of one of popular culture’s most enduring and beloved characters proves that an audience’s imagination can be the most captivating place in the world.

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