Jude Law Eyed to Play Captain Hook in Peter Pan Live-Action Disney Movie

Peter Pan reboot.

Peter Pan & Wendy, Disney’s gestating big screen reimagining of its classic 1953 animated Peter Pan feature adaptation, has Law in talks to play the J.M. Barrie novel-adapted story’s infamous antagonist, Captain Hook, Black Widow, in which she plays a child version of the title character in a flashback.

Director Pete’s Dragon. While that film’s $143.7 million global gross may not have set the global box office ablaze with fiery breath, Disney was apparently satisfied enough with the final product to hand the Peter Pan reigns to Lowery. Yet, the project has lingered in pre-production purgatory ever since, ceding momentum to similar live-action adaptations like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King, with several more on the docket.

Should Law finalize the Peter Pan & Wendy deal, he will follow in the modern live-action footsteps of Dustin Hoffman, who played the villainous title role in director Steven Spielberg’s 1991 offering, Hook, opposite Robin Williams’s grown Peter, and Garrett Hedlund, who played a younger, friendlier—both hands intact—version of Hook, opposite Levi Miller’s Peter, in director Joe Wright’s 2015 adaptation, Hook‘s $300 million global gross missed marks for Amblin and TriStar, and—in a nightmare scenario—Pan’s $128 million global gross actually left Warner Bros. and production partners in the red against a $150 million budget.

Law, a two-time Oscar nominee (Best Lead Actor in 2004 for Cold Mountain and Best ing Actor in 2000 for The Talented Mr. Ripley), most recently appeared in director Reed Morano’s January-dropped dramatic thriller movie, The Third Day, which is currently in post-production.

That is the extent of what’s known about the Peter Pan & Wendy project for now. However, the report’s sources indicate that the film is designed to be a theatrical release (in what will hopefully be a post-COVID world), as opposed to Disney’s live-action Lady & the Tramp, which was released last November exclusively for streaming on Disney Plus. We, of course, will keep you updated as the news arrives.