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The actor is in talks to play the villainous Captain Hook in Disney’s live-action retelling of 'Peter Pan,' based on Disney's 1953 animated movie.
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00:00It looks like a pirate's life for Jude Law. The actor is in talks to play the
00:09villainous Captain Hook in Disney's live-action retelling of Peter Pan. The
00:13live-action film Peter Pan and Wendy is based on the 1953 Disney animated
00:18classic. However the retelling is not the first live-action look at the
00:28characters introduced by writer J.M. Barrie in the early 20th century. Steven
00:32Spielberg's 1991 film Hook starred Robin Williams as an adult Peter and co-star
00:37Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook. And later Universal and Columbia's 2003 movie Peter
00:42Pan featured Jason Isaacs as the villainous pirate and more recently Warner
00:46Brothers released Pan, the 2015 origin story starring Hugh Jackman that
00:50unfortunately faltered at the box office. Law was recently in the Disney fold due
00:54to his role in Captain Marvel, last year's tentpole from Marvel Studios. He has also
00:58been playing Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts movies from Warner
01:01Brothers. Disney has largely found box office success remaking its animated
01:04films in recent years and in 2019 alone put out Dumbo, Aladdin and The Lion King
01:09with the latter two each earning more than $1 billion globally. For more on the
01:14story head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.
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