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FILM · 2015 · USA

Pan

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18 Interesting Facts About Pan

  1. #001

    Rooney Mara stated that the sword fight was filmed with the actors using wooden swords at full force, with the blades added digitally.

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  2. #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.

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  3. #003

    The boots worn by Tiger Lily actually belong to actress Rooney Mara. It is claimed that Tiger Lily stole them from a pirate.

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  4. #004

    The screenplay for this film appeared on the 2013 Black List, the list of the year's most liked unproduced screenplays.

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  5. #005

    Levi Miller won a drama award at the age of five for playing Peter Pan. He loves the film Peter Pan (2003).

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  6. #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.

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  7. #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.

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  8. #010

    When we first see Blackbeard on screen, the entire mining community is singing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

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  9. #011

    Lupita Nyong'o and Adèle Exarchopoulos were considered to play Tiger Lily.

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  10. #012

    Javier Bardem was offered the role of Blackbeard.

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  11. #013

    As Pan is about to be thrown off the ship, the crew sings The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop.

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  12. #014

    Director Joe Wright said he made this for his son Zubin.

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  13. #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.

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  14. #016

    Joe Wright admitted that he was so devastated by the film's failure at the box office that he nearly retired from directing.

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  15. #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.

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  16. #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.

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  17. #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.

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  18. #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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