FILM · 2015 · USA
Pan
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- #001
Rooney Mara stated that the sword fight was filmed with the actors using wooden swords at full force, with the blades added digitally.
- #002
Many of the film's natural scenes were shot at Son Doong Cave, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Ninh Bình in Vietnam. The captured scenes were later transformed graphically into the film.
- #003
The boots worn by Tiger Lily actually belong to actress Rooney Mara. It is claimed that Tiger Lily stole them from a pirate.
- #004
The screenplay for this film appeared on the 2013 Black List, the list of the year's most liked unproduced screenplays.
- #005
Levi Miller won a drama award at the age of five for playing Peter Pan. He loves the film Peter Pan (2003).
- #006
To find the right actor to play Peter, the producers looked at thousands of children in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia before finding Levi Miller.
- #007
Garrett Hedlund drew inspiration from co-star Hugh Jackman while working with him on the action scenes. He said: "Hugh is great. He sets a standard for young men all over the world. He gives 110 percent to everything he does, fitness included. Hugh and I trained with a great trainer named David Kingsbury. We have some gym sessions together. There's a lot to follow, but seeing someone work as hard as he does is great, it's inspiring."
- #008
There was at least one reference to Hook (1991), in which Robin Williams played Peter and Dustin Hoffman played Hook, in the scene where Blackbeard fights Tiger Lily and his wig is cut by her sword. Williams does the same to Hoffman in the fight scene at the end of Hook.
- #009
When Blackbeard's wig is removed near the end of the film, red scars running around his crown are clearly visible. This indicates that his scalp was scalped, a historical practice of Native American tribes in warfare.
- #010
When we first see Blackbeard on screen, the entire mining community is singing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
- #011
Lupita Nyong'o and Adèle Exarchopoulos were considered to play Tiger Lily.
- #012
Javier Bardem was offered the role of Blackbeard.
- #013
As Pan is about to be thrown off the ship, the crew sings The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop.
- #014
Director Joe Wright said he made this for his son Zubin.
- #015
This is the second film in which Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried appear together. The pair, who previously played father and daughter in the musical drama Les Misérables (2012), are on opposing sides in this film.
- #016
Joe Wright admitted that he was so devastated by the film's failure at the box office that he nearly retired from directing.
- #017
Dario Marianelli, who worked on Joe Wright's films and won an Academy Award for Atonement (2007) and V for Vendetta (2005), was Wright's first choice to compose the score for Pan (2015). However, a Warner Bros. executive may have found Marianelli's completed music inadequate and insufficient, and he may have withdrawn from the production. Wright eventually replaced Marianelli with John Powell, known for his universally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated score for How to Train Your Dragon (2010).
- #018
Before Rooney Mara was cast in the role of Tiger Lily, Indian Bollywood actress Pooja Hegde was considered for the part.
- #019
Joe Wright's family ran a puppet theatre, so he sees Pan as an opportunity to return to the pure fantasy of his childhood.
- #020
References to the Luftwaffe and air raids appear to indicate that this film is set in 1940-1941. The original play was in fact first staged in 1906.
- #021
Pan (2015) was initially scheduled for release on 24 July 2015, but post-production problems and Joe Wright's change of composer may have been the reasons the film's release date was moved to 9 October 2015.
- #022
Another similarity to Hook is Peter's fear of heights. Before Peter Banning remembers who he really is, he too is afraid of heights.
- #023
Joe Wright joined the team after the first draft was completed.
- #024
There is a reference to the 1991 film "Hook," in which Peter says he has a problem with heights.
- #025
This is not the only film about Neverland set during World War II. In Return to Never Land (2002), the sequel to Peter Pan (1953), after a child is taken by a pirate ship flying over London, the ship is bombed as it leaves London, and it is fired upon while flying through the air, which brings it uncomfortably close to the iconic Big Ben clock tower as it tries to flee back to Neverland.
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