We’re used to seeing screen beauty Keira Knightley looking glamorous in various period dramas – but her next role is going to be very different as the actress will be voicing the part of Tinker Bell.
Keira will bring the mischievous fairy to life in Sky Movies and SYFY’s new production Neverland, which is a prequel to the Peter Pan story. Joining the Oscar-nominated actress in the cast is Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Bob Hoskins, Charles Dance and Charlie Rowe.
The press release tells us all we need to know about the plot; “Peter (Rowe), along with his pals of young pickpockets, have been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a magical orb which transports them to another world – Neverland. Filled with white jungles and imposing cities formed out of trees created by Dr. Fludd (Dance) and inhabited by a colony of tree spirits led by Tinker Bell (Knightley), this mysterious realm welcomes unknown friends and enemies snatched from time. These include power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Friel) and her band of 18th century pirates who search for the answer to eternal youth, a secret guarded by a Holy Man (Raoul Trujillo). As the fight to save this strange and beautiful world escalates, Peter and his crew consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up—right here in their new home called Neverland.”
We’re a sucker for anything Peter Pan, but would you tune in to this?