Rooney Mara has been cast as the "Indian Princess" Tiger Lily in WB's Peter Pan reboot. She joins Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund.
Casting for Warner Brothers’ Pan continues to go in full swing with Rooney Mara being cast in the famous role of Tiger Lily in this Peter Pan reimagining.
As reported in Variety, Mara is joining a star-studded cast of familiar faces populating this Pan mythology “reboot,” including Hugh Jackman as the villainous Blackbeard (no word yet as to whether it’s really supposed to be a form of Edward Thatch) and Garrett Hedlund as a young, two-handed James Hook. The role of Peter Pan, which is said to be a boy of about 10 to 12 years old, has yet to be cast.
Mara, an actress best known for being the American version of Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (a role which netted her an Oscar nomination), as well as appearing in Side Effects and Her, won out on a part that was previously considering Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) and Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color). In the original J.M. Barrie play, Tiger Lily is an Indian Princess of the “Piccaninny Tribe,” who Pan saves from the dastardly hook and serves as something of a foil to Wendy Darling.
Pan is being directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) and is scripted by Jason Fuchs and Reg Berlanti. In this version, the story is relocated to World War II where Pan is an orphan kidnapped by Blackbeard’s pirates and whisked off to Neverland. WB has slated the picture for release on July 17, 2015.
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