Neverland | |
Director: | Damion Dietz |
Producer: | Damion Dietz, Stephanie Kirchen |
Screenplay: | Damion Dietz |
Starring: | Rick Sparks |
Music: | Jeffery Alan Jones |
Cinematography: | Derek Dale |
Editing: | Scott Baldyga |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Neverland, full title Neverland: Never Grow Up, Never Grow Old, is a 2003 indie film by director Damion Dietz with New Media Entertainment and is a dark and surreal modern re-imagining of the classic of Peter Pan and other characters in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy.
The award-winning film, loosely based on Barrie's work, presents the characters with a twist. It features Peter Pan as an older, androgynous teen, whereas the fairy Tinker Bell is a drugged and burnt out girl, the Lost Boys are hot guys and pot heads, the Darling children are adopted, Wendy Darling is black, Captain Hook is a gay leather man and Tiger Lily is a transvestite. The events take place in Neverland which is an amusement park in the film, rather than the imaginary island.