Peter Pan (franchise) Fairies franchise. Peter Pan is a 1953 theatrical film based on the play "Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J. M. Barrie. The Peter Pan Story is a promotional featurette released in the lead up to the 1953 film, which serves as a behind-the-scenes look at the film's production. Return to Never Land is a 2002 theatrical film which serves as a sequel to the 1953 film. The Tinker Bell film series consists of six films, one half-hour special, and one six-minute short, and is based around the character Tinker Bell. Disney announced a live action
Peter Pan adapting and expanding on Barrie's works. These include a 1953 animated film, a 2003 dramatic/live-action film, a television series and many other works. J. M. Barrie first used Peter Pan as a character in a section of "The Little White Bird" (1902), an adult novel where he appears as a seven-day-old baby in the chapter entitled "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". Following the success of the 1904 play, Barrie's publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted chapters 13–18 of "The Little White Bird" and republished them in 1906 under the title "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", with the addition of illustrations by