While Walt Disney Pictures continues to turn all their animated classics like Mulan, illness Pinocchio and The Jungle Book into live-action movies, Warner Bros. already has dibs on adapting Peter Pan for this generation. The studio’s upcoming film Pan, an origin story for The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, finished filming last summer and will soon take viewers on a very different journey than any previous adaptation.

Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement), Pan introduces us to a young Peter (newcomer Levi Miller), before he learns to fly, stops aging and becomes the boy we all know from J.M. Barrie’s works. In this version, he’s an orphan who is kidnapped one day by the pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman) and taken away to Neverland. There he becomes friends with …

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