As NBC is prepping its live staging of Peter Pan, the network has bought another project inspired by the J. M. Barrie classic. Single-camera comedy Wendy And Peter, which has received a script commitment plus penalty from NBC, hails from writer-actress Marisa Coughlan, Rashida Jones & Will McCormack’s Le Train Train and Warner Bros. TV.
Loosely inspired by Peter Pan and Coughlan’s own dating experiences, Wendy and Peter is a workplace romantic comedy told from the point of view of Wendy, a woman who wants to find love with a real man, but finds herself falling for Peter, who refuses to fully embrace adulthood. Coughlan will write the script and will executive produce alongside Jones and McCormack, with Le Train Train’s Jeff Grosvenor co-executive producing. “Marisa is loaded with talent and we are lucky to be working with her,” McCormack said. Added Jones, “Her show, which uses the world of Peter Pan as its backdrop, combines pathos, comedy and heart, creating the perfect love story.”
Loosely inspired by Peter Pan and Coughlan’s own dating experiences, Wendy and Peter is a workplace romantic comedy told from the point of view of Wendy, a woman who wants to find love with a real man, but finds herself falling for Peter, who refuses to fully embrace adulthood. Coughlan will write the script and will executive produce alongside Jones and McCormack, with Le Train Train’s Jeff Grosvenor co-executive producing. “Marisa is loaded with talent and we are lucky to be working with her,” McCormack said. Added Jones, “Her show, which uses the world of Peter Pan as its backdrop, combines pathos, comedy and heart, creating the perfect love story.”
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Oh! NBC wants there own Once Upon A....wait...
ReplyDelete>workplace romantic comedy
>woman who wants to find love with a real man
>Peter, who refuses to fully embrace adulthood
...nevermind
Yeah, that sounds wrong. Why would you want to be with a manchild?
ReplyDeleteThey COULD make it a sort of magical realist quasi fantasy and talk about how there's a big difference between being childLIKE and childISH but considering most people out there don't know the difference I somehow doubt it
ReplyDeleteAt first I was like "aww yeah, I'm up for any kind of take on the old classic tales even if they crash and burn they can still be interesting" then I saw "workplace comedy" and now "nope"
ReplyDeleteThere's already a webshow with a similair premise. It's called The new Peter and Wendy. Look it up, it's pretty adorable. ^^
ReplyDeleteHope this show is just as cute.
Aww this had me interested til i read "workplace comedy" ugh. Sad, i love anything related to Peter Pan, but this is not one of them.
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