PAN (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

Levi Miller (A Heartbeat Away), Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables), Garrett Hedlund (TRON Legacy), Rooney Mara (Her), Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls), Adeel Akhtar (The Dictator), Jack Charles (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith), Cara Delevingne (Paper Towns), Leni Zieglmeier (film debut), Lewis MacDougall (film debut), Kathy Burke (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Na Tae-joo (The Kick), Nonso Anozie (Ender’s Game), Paul Kaye (Dracula Untold), Emerald Fennell (Albert Nobbs), Jack Lowden (’71), Bronson Webb (Eden Lake)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Joe Wright (Atonement), director; Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift), writer; Greg Berlanti (Green Lantern), Sarah Schechter (Arrow) and Paul Webster (Anna Karenina), producers; John Powell (Shrek), composer; John Mathieson (Gladiator) and Seamus McGarvey (The Avengers), cinematographers; William Hoy (300) and Paul Tothill (Hanna), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

An orphan boy named Peter (Miller) is suddenly whisked away from London to the magical world of Neverland, which is under the command of the nefarious pirate Blackbeard (Jackman). Soon escaping his captors, Peter teams up with a lowly worker named Hook (Hedlund) and the tribe princess Tiger Lily (Mara) as he slowly discovers his destiny – to become the legend we all know today as Peter Pan…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Offering an alternative origin story for JM Barrie’s most famous creation, Pan offers wondrous visuals by director Joe Wright and a magical sense of adventure in the place we all know as Neverland (that is, when you get past the uncomfortable white-washing of its Native American characters).

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH OCTOBER 2015

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