Fox is developing a new TV series about the Lost Boys all grown up in modern day LA, entitled League of Pan.
Peter Pan is certainly in television vogue at the moment. Having already completed a season long arc on ABC’s modern day-set Once Upon a Time, not to mention getting ready to fly as Allison Williams (along with Christopher Walken as Captain Hook!) in NBC’s Peter Pan Live!, the boy who never grew up is never leaving network TV. Indeed, you can add Fox to that list, because the network has just ordered from 20th Century Fox TV a new “adult” series called League of Pan.
Set in modern day Los Angeles, League of Pan will tell the tale of the Lost Boys 15 years after they left Neverland and grew up in the U.S. Separated and disjointed due to bad blood and past rivalries, the one-time fearless boys will have to unite again when they discover they are mysteriously being targeted for a group of murders, getting killed off one by one. Surely, it’s a problem that a little bit of fairy dust could fix, right?
Andrew Miller, of CW’s The Secret Circle, will executive produce and develop the series, which will also be executive produced by Brian Grazer’s Imagine Television.
It is a curious thing how Peter Pan has captured the 21st century zeitgeist. Indeed, in addition to his televised ubiquity, the Pan is also set to be the center of an upcoming Warner Bros. film series trilogy, beginning with next summer’s Pan, which stars Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard and Rooney Mara as Tiger Lilly (yes, you read that right). Additionally, the subject of his creation is the centerpiece of an upcoming new Broadway musical next year, entitled Finding Neverland. You can also read our review for that show, which had an early production this year in Cambridge, right here.
Clearly J.M. Barrie’s story has plenty of magic left in it to fly a century later.
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