You are NOT my Captain!

Syfy has a new TV movie coming out next month called Neverland, which is a prequel to the classic Peter Pan story, depicting how they arrived there. The trailer looks fantastic! Except for one... hundred things.

Okay, it is entirely visually pleasing, if I pretend the lead baddy is NOT supposed to be my darling (get it?) Captain Hook. Great cinematography and whatnot. Worrisome is a character that looks very similar to my female lead in my Neverland comic book project.

But my problem with Rhys Ifans playing Hook? Everything. Should I start with the blond hair and brown eyes? Or the picture of him as Peter Pan's father (as assumed by the trailer)? There are millions of other places I could start- not only with Ifans, but with the whole premise. It looks like just another film written by someone who hasn't done his research.

The director/writer Nick Willing says this about him: "the reason why I imagined Rhys in the role is because he makes villainy sympathetic. You start to understand what it is that's good about the terrible, evil things that he does, and that of course is the hallmark of any great villain."

Yes, that's Captain Hook there- the tragic villain. A brilliant character. A billion better actors could have played that role, and you had to pick Hugh Grant's weirdo roommate from Notting Hill? Shit, give it back to Jason Isaacs (pretty please!) or even Dustin Hoffman! I mean, if you're going to re-cast Bob Hoskins as Smee...

Anyway, I wish I saw this coming. I've finished thumbnailing the first book of my comic, but I am having a considerable difficulty finding the right style for it... and now I'm second-guessing some of my layout decisions...

I gotta get cracking.

Here is the trailer:

Will it be amazing? Or will it be Spiderman 3?
(crossposted)