Peter Pan Prequel Novel Headed to the Big Screen

Deadline is reporting that Disney has hired Jesse Wigutow to bring the best-selling children’s novel, Peter and the Starcatchers, to the silver screen. The popular book series provides a backstory to Peter Pan prior to meeting Wendy. Four additional novels and multiple chapter-books followed, leading up to a Broadway adaptation which has garnered nine Tony Award nominations.

Currently Wigutow is working on his rewrite of 1983's, "The Osterman Weekend." In the past he penned 2003's, "It Runs in the Family."