Steven Speilberg's "Hook" a good movie musical adaptation idea?

I have been getting pretty tired of the constant need to adapt a movie into a musical. But I have wondered my whole life why they never did it with the 1991 film Hook? They literally have adapted every Peter Pan Adaptation except this one, and I believe that this one has the most intriguing plot. True, the movie had its flaws (mainly the script), but that's a perfect opportunity to make it better. And to be able to incorporate the John Williams score would be such a treat. This movie was my childhood favorite and I do believe a stage adaptation would be really good! I have done some dream casting (Terrence Mann as Hook, Norbert Leo Butz as Peter Banning/Peter Pan, Laura Benanti as Tinker Bell, Dan Fogler as Smee, Jake and Sydney Lucas as Jack and Maggie and Angela Lansbury as Granny Wendy). I do know when they orginally thought of the idea for Hook, they intially did concept it as a musical but then it just stemmed to film. I just think it would be successful of done right.

Updated On: 11/9/15 at 03:50 AM

Yes but the movie has also gained a massive cult following like Newsies.

Leave Peter Pan aloooooooooone.

I adore this movie, and I even think it could make a good musical in the right hands. But i think Pal Joey said it best. Leave Peter Pan alone - at least for a while.

Who is Chris Lucas?

Keiichi2 said: "I seem to remember that John Williams' score for the film was largely taken from a failed Peter Pan musical that he was working on at one time. That song the little girl sings at one point of the film was taken from it.

Two songs were taken from it but not the score. The sscore is considred to be the best aspect of the movie.

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I agree that it doesn't need to happen for a while, but I do think it is a better and mor einteresting idea than turning Finding Neverland into a musical.

I'm sick of Peter Pan adaptions.. No one wants to hear a crappy generic pirate song.

Hook at one time was being prepped for a Musical film per Wiki

"The film score was composed and conducted by John Williams. Williams was brought in at an early stage when Spielberg was considering making the film as a musical. Accordingly, Williams wrote around eight songs for the project at this stage. The idea was later abandoned. Most of Williams's song ideas were incorporated into the instrumental score, though two songs survive as songs in the finished film: "We Don't Wanna Grow Up" and "When You're Alone", both with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse."

Also years ago working with Mary Bond Davis ( Smees girl in the movie ), said she recorded a ton of songs and they even filmed production numbers that were later scrapped from the final movie after test audiences hated that it was a musical.

Enough of this Peter Pan sh*t already. And especially not a musical of Spielberg's horror, one of his very worst films.

The idea was explored to make HOOK a musical, either as a film but also as a stage venture, in the late 80s. We know the outcome.

The rights to adapt the film into a theatrical venture were acquired in the late 90s/early 00s, but that Producer failed to realize the stage adaptation. Or should I say, has yet to. I'm unsure when their rights agreement expires. I would think it has by now.

And while the world SHOULD be sick by all these adaptations of Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Wonderland, obviously there is so much financial prospects that producers/studios/authors keep them coming.

Speaking of Peter Pan, I would love to see a top notch revival done on Broadway in a few years, possibly Lincoln center. Or maybe even a Broadway revival of J.M Barrie's Peter Pan