“I didn’t know what I was doing.”

It is not news to anyone that the director Steven Spielberg has the child that we all supposedly carry inside quite developed and present.

He has demonstrated this repeatedly in his own film works. Without going any further in one of his great successes, E.T.., or even in Jurassic Parkwhere the kids had a significant (and somewhat irritating for some) presence.

As if that were not enough, one of his latest films (which by the way failed at the box office), The Fabelmansfocuses entirely on the childhood of a young man who is none other than Spielberg himself. But even so, there is a relatively childish film of which the creator of Shark He’s not particularly proud. In fact, he has a more than bittersweet memory of her.

Steven Spielberg and his return to Neverland

There are two classic novels that many artists longing for their childhood seem to always keep in mind. The first is Alice in Wonderland; the other, Peter Panthe story of a boy who never grew up, and which JM Barrie wrote in 1904. Then it was undoubtedly Disney who popularized it throughout the world. The latter was always one of Steven Spielberg’s fetishes.

So, at the beginning of the 90s, and after having conquered and enriched Hollywood during the previous decade, the one known as “King Midas” of the North American industry prepared to make his own reinterpretation of history. In this case with an adult Peter Pan, who had forgotten his past until Captain Hook kidnapped his own children.

Hook (Captain Hook) It was a considerable success. Although far from Spielberg’s greatest commercial triumphs, It cost 70 million dollars and managed to raise around 300 worldwide. For many kids born in the 80s, it was one of the movies of their childhood. However, Spielberg has never felt comfortable with her, as he has stated again.

“I didn’t know what I was doing,” the director admitted. “I felt like a fish out of water doing Hook. I had no confidence in the script..

I was confident in the first act and the epilogue, but not in the main body. I tried to cover my insecurity with production values; “The more insecure I felt, the bigger and more colorful the sets became.”

The Peter Pan that was not

Although finally Robin Williams was the interpreter in charge of giving life to an older Peter Pan for Hookmany point out that for a time the image of the protagonist was going to be different. Nothing more and nothing less than another lover of Peter Pan and nostalgic for childhood: Michael Jackson. Apparently, he was always interested in starring in the film.

Whether Spielberg ever agreed or not was never entirely clear. But Jackson finally gave up when he saw that the film’s story was taking directions that he had not imagined, more focused on a “modern” Peter Pan and not so much on children who did not want to grow up.

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