How Benh Zeitlin Fulfilled a Boyhood Dream to Direct the Peter Pan-Inspired ‘Wendy’ | Video

“Wendy,” Benh Zeitlin’s riff on the iconic Peter Pan tale, was something he dreamed about making his entire life. “Me and my sister Eliza, who I wrote the film with, really dreamed about making this film our entire lives, and it evolved as we grew up,” Zeitlin told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Sundance Film Festival. “I think that when we looked back at all of our games we played as children, where you were in a world and when you became 13 you were out — you were kicked out of it. In our childhood world, you know, we looked at adults and we just thought, how could that happen to us? What are we gonna lose that’s going turn us into who we are now, which is wild and free and imaginative and what’s gonna turn us into people that we don’t recognize? People who are destroying the planet, who don’t care. The things that adults do that children would never do. It terrified us.” “Wendy” stars Devin France as Wendy and Yashua Mack as Peter, and follows Wendy as she’s kidnapped and taken from her home to an island where mysterious pollen has disrupted age and time....

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