Channing Tatum Attached to 'Peter Pan Begins'

G.I. Joestar Channing Tatumis attached to yet another fairy tale re-imagining titledPeter Pan Begins, a pitch package that went out to studios on Tuesday.

Screenwriter Billy Ray, who wroteBreachand the upcoming adaptation ofThe Hunger Games, is on board, according to theHollywood Reporter, as well as producer Joe Roth, who is already working on a few other fairy tale re-visitations, includingOz the Great and Powerful(with director Sam Raimi and stars James Franco and Mila Kunis) andSnow White and the Huntsman(with stars Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart).

Details on the project are limited for now, but it’s only a matter of time before a logline or a draft makes its way online. I’m curious to see how a musclebound Tatum, 30, factors into the origins of a never-aging boy who sneaks into girls’ windows. Not in a creepy way, but in amagicalway. Of course, Steven Spielberg already mined the after story with the quasi sequelHookthat posited“what if Peter Pan grew up and became Robin Williams?”

The pitch is part of Hollywood’s recent push to return to the lands of magic, myth and public domain and avoid the costs of comic book license fees or producing a (gasp) entirely original work.  Which explains why there are at least three Snow White movies in production, four Oz re-imaginings, a grown-upHansel& Gretel, Red Riding Hood, a Mulan redo, a new Little Mermaid take, and even an origin story ofTinkerbellwith Elizabeth Banks attached to star.

In fact, another Peter Pan movie already exists. Screenwriter Ben Magid soldPanto New Line in 2006 and recently Ben Hibon, who helmed the magnificent animated sequence inHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows– Part 1, agreed in Novemberto direct. That story centers on a retired police captain named Hook who goes in search of a missing boy with the help of a former kidnap victim named Wendy.

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