FINDING NEVERLAND: J. M. Barrie and PETER PAN
Initially, Miramax wouldn’t even consider German-born director Marc Forster for Finding Neverland. "My agent called and said, ‘They don’t see the relationship between this and your dead-baby movie,’" Forster later recalled, referring to his first feature film, Everything Put Together, a 2000 drama about a mother whose baby dies of sudden infant death syndrome. (Radha Mitchell, who plays Mary Barrie in Finding Neverland, has the lead in Everything Put Together.) Source: Newsweek.
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Finding Neverland was originally scheduled to be released in the fall of 2003. However, Columbia Pictures had the rights to James M. Barrie’s play for their film version of Peter Pan (directed by P. J. Hogan), which was to be released in December 2003.
Columbia refused to allow Miramax [...]
by Andre Soares | January 13, 2005
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Tags: A. S. Byatt, Charles Frohman, Finding Neverland, Freddie Highmore, Gay Interest, Gerald du Maurier, James M. Barrie, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Llewelyn Davies, Marc Forster, Nina Boucicault, Peter Pan, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
