'Pete's Dragon' helmer David Lowery will direct
and co-wrote the script with Toby Halbrooks. will not the first live-action look at the characters introduced by writer J.M. Barrie in the early 20th century. Steven Spielberg's 1991 film starred Robin Williams as a an adult Peter, and co-starred Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook.
Universal and Columbia's 2003 movie featured Jason Isaacs as the villainous pirate, while most recently, Warner Bros. releasedLaw was recently in the Disney fold via his role in, last year’s tentpole from the Marvel Studios arm. He has also been playing Albus Dumbledore in theDisney has largely found box office success remaking its animated films in recent years, and in 2019 alone put out
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