Channing Tatum might be too old to play Peeta in screenwriter Billy Ray's adaptation of "The Hunger Games," but that hasn't stopped him from teaming up with the scribe to bring Peter to life.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Channing and Billy have joined forces with producer Joe Roth to pitch a film about the origin story of Peter Pan. The movie, appropriately called "Peter Pan Begins," would follow the title character before Wendy, John and Michael ever made their way to Neverland.
Though the plot details are scarce (including whether Channing will indeed play the titular character), our deductive IMDb skills lead us to believe "Peter Pan Begins" is going to live somewhere between the action and thriller genres, with a different sort of take on the classic "Peter Pan" story than we've seen before.
Why do we say that? Well, Billy Ray is the most obvious giveaway about the type of film this will be. His movies like "State of Play," "Flightplan" and "Breach" are heavy-hitting thrillers, while "Volcano," "Hart's War" and "The Hunger Games" add a decent amount of action into the mix. It wouldn't make sense for "Peter Pan Begins" to go a different route.
Then there's producer Joe Roth, who's been behind the recent string of classic-literature-with-a-twist flicks. He produced "Alice in Wonderland" and is in the process of getting "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "Oz: The Great and Powerful" off the ground, all of which are focusing on a different angle of our most well-known stories. With that pedigree, "Peter Pan Begins" actually sounds really interesting instead of a fairy-fied version of "Batman Begins."
Is this a film you'd be interesting in seeing? Can you picture Channing Tatum" as Peter Pan?