Neverland gets a live-action retelling with David Lowery's Peter Pan & Wendy, a 2023 family adventure that keeps J. M. Barrie's boy-who-wouldn't-grow-up story front and center.

What is Peter Pan & Wendy about?

Wendy Darling is on the edge of leaving childhood behind when a strange boy appears at her London window one night and offers her something else entirely: a flight to Neverland, an island where growing up is optional. She recruits her younger brothers along for the trip, and together they're swept into a world of fairies, pirates and a rivalry between Peter and the pirate captain Hook that has been running for as long as the island has existed. Told largely from Wendy's point of view, the film treats the choice between staying a child forever and returning home as the real adventure, alongside the swordfights and flying lessons.

About the cast

Alexander Molony plays Peter opposite Ever Anderson as Wendy, with Jude Law taking on Captain Hook and Alyssa Wapanatâhk, Jim Gaffigan, Joshua Blue Pickering, Jacobi Jupe and Molly Parker rounding out the Darling family and Neverland's residents.

Context & significance

Released in 2023 and running 106 minutes, Peter Pan & Wendy is a United States production spanning action, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy, musical and romance tags — a wide net that reflects how many moods the source material covers, from swashbuckling set pieces to quieter scenes about siblinghood and letting go. It's the latest live-action pass at a story that has been retold on stage and screen for over a century, filmed at real scale rather than as pure animation. The mix of genre tags also signals a film built for a full family sitting rather than one narrow audience — young viewers get the flying and sword-fighting, while the framing story about growing up gives older viewers something to hold onto as well.

Watching Peter Pan & Wendy on Ktime

Peter Pan & Wendy is available on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself is free to browse without signing in. The film carries both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making it an easy pick for family viewing in Farsi for K-Time's diaspora audience.