I previously spoke about the Syfy holiday episodes of Eureka, Haven and Warehouse 13 airing on Syfy. But there’s also another important show that will be airing during Syfy’s Countdown to Christmas week, which runs December 4th to 10th.
On Sunday, December 4th, Syfy will premiere the two-night miniseries called Neverland. (Sunday, December 4 at 9PM & Monday, December 5 at 9PM (ET/PT))
Neverland is a Syfy original prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. It stars Rhys Ifans (Anonymous, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1; the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man, due out 7/12) as James Hook, Oscar nominee Keira Knightley (A Dangerous Method, Never Let Me Go) as the voice of Tinker Bell, Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies, Limitless) as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Oscar nominee Bob Hoskins (Made in Dagenham) as Smee (who previously played the character in Steven Spielberg’s feature ), Raoul Trujillo (Cowboys & Aliens, True Blood, Tin Man) and Charlie Rowe (Never Let Me Go) as the famed Peter Pan himself.
Neverland had started filming in September of 2010 and was shot in locations such as Dublin, Ireland; Genoa, Italy & Swords, Ireland, by the Dublin-based production company Parallel Films, on behalf of MNG Films, in association with Sky Movies HD, and will be distributed by RHI Entertainment.
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It was just announced that Keira Knightly will be joining the cast of the Syfy channel TV movie production of Neverland. Neverland is a prequel / origin story to the classic, Peter Pan story what was written by J.M. Barrie.
In Syfy‘s Neverland, Keira Knightly will be playing Tinker Bell and she’s joining those already in the cast: Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Bob Hoskins, Charles Dance, Raoul Trujillo and Charlie Rowe.
The project is being directed (and was written) by Nick Willing whose resume includes The River King, Alice and Tin Man. All wonderfully envisioned projects by Willing.
About Neverland:
Peter (Rowe), along with his pals of young pickpockets, have been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a magical orb which transports them to another world – Neverland. Filled with white jungles and imposing cities formed out of trees created by Dr. Fludd (Dance) and inhabited by a colony of tree spirits led by Tinker Bell (Knightley), this mysterious realm welcomes unknown friends and enemies snatched from time. These include power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Friel) and her band of 18th century pirates who search for the answer to eternal youth, a secret guarded by a Holy Man (Trujillo). As the fight to save this strange and beautiful world escalates, Peter and his crew consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up—right here in their new home called Neverland.
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Neverland is being produced by Dublin-based Parallel Films on behalf of MNG Films in association with Syfy and Sky Movies HD and distributed by RHI Entertainment.
[Syfy Channel Press Release]
