“They thought they caught some 16-year-old kid trying to impress them with the oldest, mustiest trick in the book - and then they’d get so fucking mad! These guys would just storm out and I’d yell, ‘But don’t you want your change?!’įlashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo Album “I loved it, because they would just seethe,” he says, cracking up at the memory. The older men would wearily sigh, roll their eyes, and gesture toward the first hand… at which point Lee would open his fist and present their coins. The teenage Lee wouldn’t perform the gag for regular customers, however he’d wait until professional magicians came into the shop and then do the antiquated Magic 101 move. “‘Oh, look, it stayed in this hand, haha!’” He picks up a quarter, slides it into his other hand, and closes his palm when he opens his fist, there’s no coin there. “It’s a classic move called the French Drop,” the 49-year-old filmmaker says, as he angles his laptop’s camera downward. When John Lee was working at his first job - a magic store in the small Bay Area town of Castroville, California - there was a trick he’d always play.

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Peter Pan & Wendy is reportedly expected to be a theatrical release rather than a Disney+ exclusive, but no specific release date has yet been set.

Hopefully he imbues Captain Hook with a similar level of menacing intensity. He’s done some memorable bad guys in the past, most notably the unsettling crime scene photographer Maguire in Road to Perdition. That said, Law is a fine choice to play the iconic villain. Peter Pan is an attractive property for studios, due to its almost universal recognition and existence in the public domain, but modern audiences have simply never demonstrated a strong interest in the story. Hogan’s 2003 film Peter Pan was well-received but was a box office bomb, and Joe Wright’s disastrous 2015 prequel Panwas a dud of near-mythical proportions, Hugh Jackman’s glorious facial hair notwithstanding. Steven Spielberg’s Hookis tightly wrapped in nostalgia but was a critical and commercial disappointment. But it’s worth noting that there has yet to be a successful live-action Peter Pan movie.

Barrie is easily the most iconic interpretation, so it’s no surprise that the studio would tap Peter Pan for a live-action reimagining considering they’re hard at work remaking virtually every one of their animated classics. Disney’s 1956 animated adaptation of the children’s story by J.M.

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