The character created by James Matthew Barrie enters the public domain this year and will feature in a feature film called “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare,” directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield.
The entrance of Mickey Mouse to the public domain is giving a lot of talk, the mouse disney can be used freely, but this only applies to its original version, the one that starred in the short Steamboat Willie in 1928. Two days into the year, a movie and a video game about a murderous Mickey and another zombie, respectively, have already been confirmed.
Another children’s character who will suffer the same fate as the mouse from now on is Peter Pan. Like Mickey, the boy from Neverland who did not want to become an adult is now available to anyone and we will see the first consequence of this circumstance with the premiere of Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
It will be a horror film that will be released in 2024, although the date on which it will hit theaters has not yet been confirmed. Your director will be Rhys Frake-Waterfieldalso responsible for Winnie the Pooh: honey and bloodanother chilling adaptation of the adorable bear we all know.
Which version of Peter Pan is in the public domain
The version of Peter Pan that we will now see in the horror genre is not the Disney one that we all know. This is the original, created by James Matthew Barrie. The Scottish writer premiered a play called Peter Pan and Wendy in 1904, which he later turned into a novel, although the complete edition was not published until 1928.
He Peter Pan that we all know, with his green suit and hat, will remain the property of Disney for a few more years, since the company released his film in 1953. We will see if there are attempts to remove him from the public domain, as they already did with his own Mickey Mouse. The current 95-year rule is precisely due to pressure from Disney to prevent the adorable mouse from being exclusively theirs.
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