The official trailer has arrived for Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. The movie is the third installment in the Twisted Childhood Universe after Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and its sequel. The upcoming Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, based on the iconic work by J. M. Barrie, is the first new installment in the franchise to feature a non-A.A. Milne public domain 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’s character, though the franchise is already set to expand with the upcoming titles Bambi: The Reckoning and Pinocchio: Unstrung, leading into the 2025 crossover Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.
The trailer opens on a creepy scene of Peter kidnapping a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 that is reminiscent of the opening scene of 2017’s It. The video then introduces the main premise of the movie, which follows an adult Peter with a scarred face operating as a mask-wearing 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁er who abducts 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren and believes he can “send them to Neverland,” where they never have to grow up.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and its sequel already set the stage for a no-holds-barred approach for the Twisted Childhood Universe. The movies follow the iconic characters from the Hundred Acre Wood having turned feral and bloodthirsty after being abandoned by their 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hood friend Christopher Robin, who is now a grown adult. Their bloody rampage through the English countryside results in a high body count and a variety of gruesome sequences that offer a significantly darker twist on the material than the usual adaptations of A. A. Milne’s work.
However, the Peter Pan trailer reveals that the upcoming Twisted Childhood Universe movie seems to be upping the ante considerably. While the Blood and Honey movies simply transformed the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hood characters into 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ers, the new installment offers a much more nightmarish take on the material. It is unclear if Neverland ever existed in the first place or if it is simply a figment of the 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁er’s imagination as he stalks his young victims. If it is indeed fictitious, ᵴtriƥping the magic away from J. M. Barrie’s work feels almost as much like an act of desecration as making the character a murderer.
