Neverland (miniseries)
| Neverland | |
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| Genre |
Adventure Fantasy |
| Written by | Nick Willing |
| Directed by | Nick Willing |
| Starring |
Rhys Ifans Anna Friel Charles Dance Q'orianka Kilcher Raoul Trujillo Cas Anvar George Aguilar Bob Hoskins Charlie Rowe Keira Knightley |
| Theme music composer | Ronan Hardiman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Redmond Morris |
| Cinematography | Seamus Deasy |
| Editor(s) | Allan Lee |
| Running time | 161 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Parallel Films Sky Movies Production |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syfy |
| Original release | 4 December – 5 December 2011 |
Neverland is a fantasy miniseries that aired on the Syfy network (United States) on December 4 and 5, 2011, and Sky Movies (United Kingdom) on December 9 and 16, written and directed by Nick Willing. It is a prequel to the story of Peter Pan.
In London, England 1906, orphan Peter Pan (Charlie Rowe) is one of a gang of juvenile street thieves assembled by arch crook and ace fencer James "Jimmy" Hook (Rhys Ifans). When Jimmy proposes the risky, but well worth it, job of Harbottle's Jewelry and Antiques, the ever-willing-to-please Peter talks the other boys into attempting the heist, despite their original protests, however their arguments had caused Jimmy to change his mind, stating that they weren't ready and he didn't want them to get caught and thrown in prison. Peter, wanting to prove to Jimmy both that they were ready and that he was old enough to become Jimmy's partner, convinced the other boys to join him in robbing Harbottle's that night, though he neglected to mention that Jimmy had explicitly told him not to.
After successfully infiltrating the shop, the boys are looting the place when Jimmy arrives. Peter tries to tell Jimmy that he just wanted to prove to Jimmy that they were old enough and that they could handle it, but Jimmy reminds him that he had told Peter not to go. He then goes to the backrooms to try to find the item that he had come for. Peter goes with him and Jimmy tells him that he's not quite grown enough to be Jimmy's partner, before sending him to the main room to keep lookout. Jimmy managed to find his prize, a strange glowing orb that had been locked in a chest. When startled by an image of gnashing crocodile teeth from within the orb Jimmy falls off the stool he had been standing on to reach the chest, the orb falling to the ground in a huge exploding flash which encompasses Jimmy and all of the boys, except for Peter, with a golden light. Peter, still in the front room, sees the light and when it fades there is only empty space where the room that Jimmy and the others had been in. Believing his friends dead, Peter takes the orb and returns to Whitechapel Fencing Academy (the place that Jimmy and his boys live at), where a man Peter knew was involved with Jimmy's business appeared, asking after Jimmy. When he leaves Peter decides to follow him and sneaks into the building the man enters a way off, where Peter finds a number of strange people, learns of what the orb does, which is serve as transport to another land at the centre of the universe, and discovers that Jimmy and the others are alive. After finding this out, he runs from the place and returns to Whitechapel, where he hits the orb himself, determined to find Jimmy and his gang and bring them back home.
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