THIS ARE THE ORIGINAL COSUMTE SCREEN WORN BY
JEREMY SUMPTER AS PETER PAN DURING FILMING OF THE HIT MOVIE: "PETER PAN".
RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM THE SET WITH COA FROM REVOLUTION STUDIOS.
STUDIO WARDEROBE TAG:
PETER PAN #9 REGULAR FIT
STORYLINE:
This story is a fairly faithful adaptation of the play and novel by J. M. Barrie. In it, the perpetually young Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter) from time to time visits his birthplace of London, where he becomes enthralled by the stories he hears being told by Wendy Darling (Rachel Hurd-Wood) to her brothers. Peter invites her to come to Neverland and be a "mother" to his gang of Lost Boys. Wendy asks to bring her brothers John (Harry Newell) and Michael (Freddie Popplewell), and Peter teaches them all to fly with him.
Out of jealousy, Tinker Bell (Ludivine Sagnier) tricks the Lost Boys into shooting Wendy as she approaches the island, but Wendy survives and the boys ask her to be their mother and tell them stories. Meanwhile Captain Hook (Jason Isaacs) captures John and Michael and holds them as bait for Peter. Wendy and Peter free them, with help from the Amerindian princess Tiger Lily (Haida speaker, Carsen Gray) and the timely arrival of the crocodile that ate Hook's hand.
That Night, Peter and Wendy share a "fairy dance", while Hook spies on them, distressed that Peter has "found himself a Wendy". Peter reminds Wendy that "they" are make believe, Wendy confronts Peter about his feelings about love. Peter becomes angry at her, and tells her to go home if she's not happy. Wendy, in tears, escapes to her little house.
Peter returns to the Darling house, and seeing that Wendy's mother is still waiting for the children to come home, he attemps to shut the window (to make Wendys parents forget about them). But, after a struggle, Wendy's parents manage to reopen the window, refusing to let it be closed.
Hook later finds Wendy and takes her to his ship Jolly Roger, where he entices her with a job telling stories to the crew, then sends a spy to follow her to the Lost Boys' underground lair. The pirates capture her and the boys by gagging every one of them and carrying them over their shoulders to Hook's ship, but since Hook is unable to reach Peter, he leaves poison for Peter to drink when he wakes up.
Tink stops him, poisoning herself in the process; Peter reaches out to the other children, sleeping children around the world, the Darlings, and even the pirates to sustain her with their belief in fairies. Peter and Tink save the children from walking the plank, and they all fight the pirates.
Hook gets sprinkled with Tink's fairy dust, and duels Peter in the air, weakening him with taunts about Wendy abandoning him and growing up. Peter finally falls, unable to fight anymore and gives in to inevitable death. But with a "thimble"(kiss) from Wendy, Peter recovers and sends Hook above the crocodile.
The crocodile takes a jump out of the water and snaps his jaws around Hook. Hook begins to think unhappy thoughts, which drags him down and allows the crocodile to eat him and ending their personal vendetta. Wendy decides that she belongs back home, and returns to London with her brothers and the Lost Boys. Peter chooses not to grow up.
In an alternate ending based on Barrie's epilog, included on the DVD release with unfinished special effects, Peter returns to the London house many years later, finding Wendy as a grown mother. He is briefly dismayed at what she's done, then turns to her daughter Jane and takes the girl with him to Neverland.
PRODUCTION:
The visual effects in the film are a mixture of practical and digital. Plans to make Tinker Bell and other fairies entirely computer animated were abandoned, and the fairies that appear in the film are actors composited into the movie with some digital enhancements.
The large crocodile is, generally, computer-generated in the scenes where it has to move its entire body and animatronic in scenes where it only has to open its eyes or its jaws. However, the crocodile appears in a minimal number of shots. Another character, an animatronic parrot, appears in some scenes on the pirate ship.
A complex harness was built to send the live-action actors rotating and gliding through the air for the flight sequences. They were then composited into the shots of London and Neverland, although they are occasionally replaced with computer-generated figures. Other aspects of bringing the fantastic story to life include the complex sword-fighting sequences, for which the actors were trained. Sumpter grew several inches over the course of the film's production, requiring staging tricks to retain Hook's height advantage over Peter in face-to-face scenes late in the process.
The film is dedicated to Dodi Al-Fayed, who was executive producer of the 1991 film Hook. Al-Fayed planned to produced a live action version of Peter Pan, and shared his ideas with Princess Diana, who said she "could not wait to see the production once it was underway." Al-Fayed's father, Mohammad Al-Fayed, co-produced the 2003 adaptation of the classic fairy tale after his son died in the car crash which also killed Princess Diana. Finding Neverland, a film about J. M. Barrie and the creation of Peter Pan, was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, but the producers of this film – who held the screen rights to the story – refused permission for that film to use scenes from the play unless its release was delayed until the following year.
BIOGRAPHY OF JEREMY SUMPTER:
Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter (born February 5, 1989) is an American actor. He is known for playing the title role in the 2003 film version of Peter Pan.
Early life:
Sumpter was born in Monterey, California to Gary Sumpter and Sandra Johnson. His siblings, twin sister, Jessica, and younger sister, Gigi, are also actresses. He was raised in the small town of Mount Sterling, Kentucky, until he was eleven. He won IMTA's Pre-Teen Male Model of the Year award in 2000.
Soon afterward, he signed with Mark Robert Management and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.
Career:
In July 2002, Sumpter, then 13 years old, was selected for the role of Peter Pan, breaking the long-standing tradition of young women playing the part in stage and live-action film adaptations of the story.
During filming (fall of 2002), he grew eight inches (from 5 ft 0 in to 5 ft 8 in), requiring some filming and staging tricks to conceal his height in scenes filmed late in production. Sumpter did nearly all of his stunts for Peter Pan himself.
To prepare, he says he practiced sword fighting as much as five hours a day, as well as training in gymnastics and lifting weights. While filming in Australia, he supplemented his training with cricket and surfing.
The $140 million-budgeted film opened in December of 2003, but did poorly, possibly due to reports of its more "adult" treatment of the J. M. Barrie story and competition at the box office from the highly-anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Sumpter spent the summer of 2005 in Oregon filming the comedy The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, which was theatrically released in November, 2007. Sumpter also appears in the independent film An American Crime, where he portrays Coy Hubbard.
He also appeared in an episode of CSI Miami as the boyfriend of a girl whose parents they murder together. He recently completed filming "Calvin Marshall" in which he plays "Caselli." He is also attached to appear in "Prep School" and "Word of Mouth."
Personal life:
Sumpter enjoys surfing, as well as basketball, football, baseball, snowboarding, tennis, soccer, hiking, swimming, rollerblading, golf, and watching storm clouds. His favorite movie is "King Kong", he also likes "Unforgiven" and "Twister".
He has been cast in numerous athletic roles, including Local Boys (surfing), Peter Pan (sword fighting), Clubhouse (baseball), Cyber Seduction (swimming). In October 2005, Sumpter competed in his first celebrity golf tournament: the Eddie Money Golf Tournament in Northern California. His team placed 3rd out of 24 teams.
