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{{short description|2004 children's book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson}} |
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| name = Peter and the Starcatchers |
| name = Peter and the Starcatchers |
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| image = Peter Starcatchers.gif |
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| caption = |
| caption = First edition |
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| author = [[Dave Barry]] <br> [[Ridley Pearson]] |
| author = [[Dave Barry]] <br /> [[Ridley Pearson]] |
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| illustrator = |
| illustrator = Greg Call |
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| language = English |
| language = English |
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| publisher = [[ |
| publisher = [[Hyperion Books for Children]] |
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| pub_date = 2004 |
| pub_date = 2004 |
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) |
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) |
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| pages = 452 (hardcover edition) |
| pages = 452 (hardcover edition) |
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| isbn = 0-7868-5445-6 |
| isbn = 0-7868-5445-6 |
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| congress= PZ7.B278 Pe 2004 |
| congress = PZ7.B278 Pe 2004 |
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| oclc= 56111836 |
| oclc = 56111836 |
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| followed_by = [[Peter and the Shadow Thieves]] |
| followed_by = [[Peter and the Shadow Thieves]] |
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'''''Peter and the Starcatchers''''' is a [[children's novel]] that was published by [[Hachette Books#Hyperion Books|Hyperion Books]], a subsidiary of [[Disney]], in 2004. Written by [[Dave Barry]] and [[Ridley Pearson]], and illustrated by |
'''''Peter and the Starcatchers''''' is a [[children's novel]] that was published by [[Hachette Books#Hyperion Books|Hyperion Books]], a subsidiary of [[Disney]], in 2004. Written by [[Dave Barry]] and [[Ridley Pearson]], and illustrated by Greg Call, the book is a reinterpretation of the character [[Peter Pan]], who first appeared in [[J. M. Barrie]]'s novel ''[[The Little White Bird]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/peter-and-the-starcatchers-next-stop-neverland.html|title='Peter and the Starcatchers': Next Stop, Neverland|date=November 14, 2004|author=Michael Gorra|website=New York Times|access-date=September 16, 2024}}</ref> |
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The book is followed by four sequels: ''[[Peter and the Shadow Thieves]]'' (2006), ''[[Peter and the Secret of Rundoon]]'' (2007), ''[[Peter and the Sword of Mercy]]'' (2009), and ''[[The Bridge to |
The book is followed by four sequels: ''[[Peter and the Shadow Thieves]]'' (2006), ''[[Peter and the Secret of Rundoon]]'' (2007), ''[[Peter and the Sword of Mercy]]'' (2009), and ''[[The Bridge to Never Land]]'' (2011). A series of [[Never Land Books|Never Land]] [[chapter book]]s for younger readers is based on the novels. |
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| ⚫ | In 2005, [[Disney]] hired [[Jay Wolpert]] to adapt the book to film, reportedly |
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In 19th century London, orphaned boys Peter, James, Thomas, Prentiss, and Tubby Ted are shipped out on the decrepit ship ''Never Land''. While searching for food, Peter encounters a mysterious trunk and its guardian, Molly Aster, a girl about his age. Meanwhile, the feared pirate Black Stache hears of a similar trunk containing a great treasure on board another ship, the ''Wasp''. Black Stache manages to run down and board the ''Wasp'', and Leonard Aster, Molly's father, attempts and fails to escape with the trunk. Black Stache opens the trunk only to find it filled with sand. Black Stache and Aster realize that the trunk is a decoy and the treasure is on board the ''Never Land''. Aster jumps overboard and escapes. |
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Molly tells Peter that the trunk contains "starstuff," magical dust of extraordinary power that falls from the heavens. Molly's family is revealed to be members of a secret society known as the Starcatchers, tasked with keeping Starstuff out of the wrong hands. Molly enlists Peter to assist in throwing the trunk overboard before Black Stache arrives. |
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| ⚫ | A [[Peter and the Starcatcher (play)|play with music adaptation]] of the book debuted in winter 2009 at [[La Jolla Playhouse]] |
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Black Stache and his men race against a monster storm to intercept the ''Never Land''. Attempting to dispose of the trunk with Molly, Peter is thrown overboard just as the storm hits. Having come into contact with Starstuff from the trunk, Peter flies back and hurls the trunk overboard. Molly and the orphans escape the ''Never Land'' and wash up on a nearby island. |
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| ⚫ | On May 17, 2012 [[Walt Disney Pictures]] announced that a film version of the book would be written by Jesse Wigutow.<ref name=Movienews/> On August 20, 2012, ''[[The Hunger Games (movie)]]'' director [[Gary Ross]] agreed to direct the movie. Filming was expected to begin in 2013.<ref>{{cite news| |
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All the children are captured by the local natives, known as the Mollusks, and their leader Fighting Prawn. The Mollusks decide to feed the children to Mister Grin, a large crocodile. Molly uses starstuff to help the group and Mister Grin to fly out of the enclosure. The trunk is found by the crew of the ''Never Land'' and its first mate, Slank. Slank reveals that he is in league with the Others, rivals of the Starcatchers who want the Starstuff for themselves. |
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The story is an adventure on the high seas and on the faraway Mollusk Island. An orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a magical secret safe and save the world from evil. Villains include the scary but somehow familiar pirate captain "Black Stache" and the ferocious crocodile Mister Grin. |
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Aster and a group of Starcatchers soon arrive on the Island, accompanied by ships of the British Navy, and Aster deduces that Peter has a high tolerance to Starstuff and instantly stops aging while retaining the ability to fly. The Mollusks and the pirates converge on the group, and a fight ensures, wherein Fighting Prawn is mortally wounded and Peter severs Black Stache's hand, which is eaten by Mister Grin. |
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Molly and Peter take a voyage with Alf, James, Thomas, Prentiss, Tubby Ted, Slank and Little Richard from a filthy, crime-ridden port in Old England across the turbulent sea. Aboard the ''Never Land'' is a trunk that holds the "greatest treasure on earth," thought by its pursuers to be gold or jewels but revealed to be "starstuff," an alien chemical element (delivered to Earth by meteor strikes) that can either give people and animals magic powers, or kill them, depending on the dosage and other factors. The trunk is moved from place to place through storms and sea battles: once in a dry, guarded cabin, next in a ship full of greedy pirates, and then out in the open sea. |
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Peter uses the starstuff in Aster's locket to save Fighting Prawn, who spares the group, allows the Starcatchers to leave the island with the starstuff, and lets the orphans stay on the island. As Peter and Molly bid farewell to one another, Aster uses starstuff to turn a bird into a fairy, Tinker Bell, to watch over Peter. Peter promises to come to London shortly to visit, and he and the boys begin to settle on the island. The story ends with Peter discovering a washed-up plank with the printed name of the ''Never Land'', which he decides to nickname the island. |
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While on the ship, both Peter and Molly become close as they take on Slank and many other villains, including pirates. While they try to keep the starstuff out of the wrong hands, the Never Land shipwrecks and Molly saves Peter from death, and they fly for an unknown island. |
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== Adaptations == |
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When the shipwreck led them to a mysterious island, known as ''Mollusk Island'', Molly is kidnapped by Slank and Peter saves her from him, along with the help of James, Thomas, Prentiss, and Tubby Ted who all go by the gang name, [[Lost Boys (Peter Pan)|The Lost Boys]]. Peter also does battle against Black Stache and cuts off his hand with a sword; the amputee pirate will adopt the moniker "[[Captain Hook]]". The book ends with Molly and Peter saying goodbye to each other and with Peter promising to visit her in England. Molly and her father, Lord Leonard Aster, return to the real world, while Peter and the Lost Boys remain on Mollusk Island, which they rename "[[Neverland]]," the name of the ship that was shipwrecked. (However, the sequels still call the island Mollusk Island more often than Neverland.) |
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| ⚫ | In 2005, [[Disney]] hired [[Jay Wolpert]] to adapt the book to film, reportedly using [[3D animation]].<ref name="Movienews">{{cite web|date=May 17, 2012|title=Disney moves forward on Peter and the Starcatchers|url=http://www.movieweb.com/news/35/10135.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216084625/http://www.movieweb.com/news/35/10135.php|archive-date=February 16, 2007|work=Movie News}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | A [[Peter and the Starcatcher (play)|play with music adaptation]] of the book debuted in winter 2009 at [[La Jolla Playhouse]] as part of an arrangement with [[Disney Theatrical]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Kenneth|date=2008-07-28|title=Can He Fly? Disney and La Jolla Will Test Wings of Starcatchers — a Peter Pan Prequel|publisher=Playbill.com|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/119891.html|url-status=dead|access-date=2008-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731234159/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/119891.html|archive-date=2008-07-31}}</ref> It was re-staged Off-Broadway in 2011 and opened on Broadway on April 15, 2012, at the [[Brooks Atkinson Theatre]]. |
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==Differences from the works of Barrie== |
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Although ''Peter and the Starcatchers'' and its follow-ups are sometimes advertised as "[[prequel]]s" to ''Peter and Wendy'', the series is in fact a complete continuity [[reboot]], which "borrows" Peter and other characters to create a self-sufficient universe. There are a number of differences between the Starcatchers series and the original novel, particularly contradicting the material in ''[[The Little White Bird]]'', itself not consistent with Barrie's other Peter Pan works. The treatment of magic is presented very differently from anything Barrie ever wrote. The series eschews the notion that there is an age limit on the use of magic, or that certain beings can be saved from death by sympathetic gestures and wishes. Most of these differences are established in the first book in the series. |
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| ⚫ | On May 17, 2012, [[Walt Disney Pictures]] announced that a film version of the book would be written by Jesse Wigutow.<ref name="Movienews" /> On August 20, 2012, ''[[The Hunger Games (movie)|The Hunger Games]]'' director [[Gary Ross]] agreed to direct the movie. Filming was expected to begin in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last=Foreman|first=Liza|date=August 21, 2012|title='Hunger Games' director signs with Disney|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> As of {{Currentyear}}, nothing else is known to have taken place.<ref>{{cite web|last=Thomlison|first=Adam|title=Q&A|url=http://decoy.tvpassport.com/q_a/q-i-heard-disney-was-going-make-movie-peter-and-starcatchers-series-books-dave-barry-and-ridley-?subid=national-00001|access-date=September 21, 2015|publisher=TV Media}}</ref> |
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==Film adaptation== |
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On May 17, 2012, it was announced by [[Walt Disney Pictures]] that a motion picture of the novel will be made. It was also reported that Jesse Wigutow will write the script for the film. On August 20, 2012, [[Gary Ross]], the director of ''[[The Hunger Games (movie)|The Hunger Games]]'', signed on to direct the film, with filming expected to start in 2013.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} As of 2015, nothing else is known to have taken place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://decoy.tvpassport.com/q_a/q-i-heard-disney-was-going-make-movie-peter-and-starcatchers-series-books-dave-barry-and-ridley-?subid=national-00001|title=Q&A|last=Thomlison|first=Adam|publisher=TV Media|accessdate=September 21, 2015}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 15:59, 27 December 2024
 First edition | |
| Author | Dave Barry Ridley Pearson |
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| Illustrator | Greg Call |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hyperion Books for Children |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 452 (hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 0-7868-5445-6 |
| OCLC | 56111836 |
| LC Class | PZ7.B278 Pe 2004 |
| Followed by | Peter and the Shadow Thieves |
Peter and the Starcatchers is a children's novel that was published by Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of Disney, in 2004. Written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and illustrated by Greg Call, the book is a reinterpretation of the character Peter Pan, who first appeared in J. M. Barrie's novel The Little White Bird.[1]
The book is followed by four sequels: Peter and the Shadow Thieves (2006), Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (2007), Peter and the Sword of Mercy (2009), and The Bridge to Never Land (2011). A series of Never Land chapter books for younger readers is based on the novels.
Plot
[edit]In 19th century London, orphaned boys Peter, James, Thomas, Prentiss, and Tubby Ted are shipped out on the decrepit ship Never Land. While searching for food, Peter encounters a mysterious trunk and its guardian, Molly Aster, a girl about his age. Meanwhile, the feared pirate Black Stache hears of a similar trunk containing a great treasure on board another ship, the Wasp. Black Stache manages to run down and board the Wasp, and Leonard Aster, Molly's father, attempts and fails to escape with the trunk. Black Stache opens the trunk only to find it filled with sand. Black Stache and Aster realize that the trunk is a decoy and the treasure is on board the Never Land. Aster jumps overboard and escapes.
Molly tells Peter that the trunk contains "starstuff," magical dust of extraordinary power that falls from the heavens. Molly's family is revealed to be members of a secret society known as the Starcatchers, tasked with keeping Starstuff out of the wrong hands. Molly enlists Peter to assist in throwing the trunk overboard before Black Stache arrives.
Black Stache and his men race against a monster storm to intercept the Never Land. Attempting to dispose of the trunk with Molly, Peter is thrown overboard just as the storm hits. Having come into contact with Starstuff from the trunk, Peter flies back and hurls the trunk overboard. Molly and the orphans escape the Never Land and wash up on a nearby island.
All the children are captured by the local natives, known as the Mollusks, and their leader Fighting Prawn. The Mollusks decide to feed the children to Mister Grin, a large crocodile. Molly uses starstuff to help the group and Mister Grin to fly out of the enclosure. The trunk is found by the crew of the Never Land and its first mate, Slank. Slank reveals that he is in league with the Others, rivals of the Starcatchers who want the Starstuff for themselves.
Aster and a group of Starcatchers soon arrive on the Island, accompanied by ships of the British Navy, and Aster deduces that Peter has a high tolerance to Starstuff and instantly stops aging while retaining the ability to fly. The Mollusks and the pirates converge on the group, and a fight ensures, wherein Fighting Prawn is mortally wounded and Peter severs Black Stache's hand, which is eaten by Mister Grin.
Peter uses the starstuff in Aster's locket to save Fighting Prawn, who spares the group, allows the Starcatchers to leave the island with the starstuff, and lets the orphans stay on the island. As Peter and Molly bid farewell to one another, Aster uses starstuff to turn a bird into a fairy, Tinker Bell, to watch over Peter. Peter promises to come to London shortly to visit, and he and the boys begin to settle on the island. The story ends with Peter discovering a washed-up plank with the printed name of the Never Land, which he decides to nickname the island.
Adaptations
[edit]In 2005, Disney hired Jay Wolpert to adapt the book to film, reportedly using 3D animation.[2]
A play with music adaptation of the book debuted in winter 2009 at La Jolla Playhouse as part of an arrangement with Disney Theatrical.[3] It was re-staged Off-Broadway in 2011 and opened on Broadway on April 15, 2012, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
On May 17, 2012, Walt Disney Pictures announced that a film version of the book would be written by Jesse Wigutow.[2] On August 20, 2012, The Hunger Games director Gary Ross agreed to direct the movie. Filming was expected to begin in 2013.[4] As of 2025, nothing else is known to have taken place.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Michael Gorra (November 14, 2004). "'Peter and the Starcatchers': Next Stop, Neverland". New York Times. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ^ a b "Disney moves forward on Peter and the Starcatchers". Movie News. May 17, 2012. Archived from the original on February 16, 2007.
- ^ Jones, Kenneth (2008-07-28). "Can He Fly? Disney and La Jolla Will Test Wings of Starcatchers — a Peter Pan Prequel". Playbill.com. Archived from the original on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- ^ Foreman, Liza (August 21, 2012). "'Hunger Games' director signs with Disney". The Washington Post.
- ^ Thomlison, Adam. "Q&A". TV Media. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
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