Film Rights Awarded for New Peter Pan

LONDON, December 18: The film rights to the official sequel
to Peter Pan have been awarded to a
British consortium that includes Headline Pictures, the UK Film Council and BBC
Films.

The feature is to be based on Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter
Pan In Scarlet, the official sequel to JM
Barrie's Peter Pan. The rights
were awarded by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children's Special
Trustees, which owns the rights to Barrie’s classic work. The author bequeathed
the hospital the rights in 1929.

In August 2004, the institution set out on a worldwide
search for a Peter Pan sequel to mark
the centenary of the original. In March 2005, Geraldine McCaughrean was
announced as the winner and her book Peter Pan In Scarlet was published in October of this year. In the novel,
grown-ups become children again, as Wendy, John and the Lost Boys join Peter
Pan for more adventures.

It is not clear when the new feature will go into
production.