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 production in 1927, where Jean Forbes-Robertson took the title role, and played the part with a lighter, more fairy-like, physicality. Robertson was to play the part almost every year until 1939. The character's name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the five Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired the story, and Pan, a minor deity of Greek mythology who plays pipes to nymphs and is part human and part goat. This is referenced in Barrie's works (particularly "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens") where Peter Pan plays pipes to the fairies and rides a goat. The god Pan represents