7. Accentuate the weirdness. One of the best modern adaptations of the Peter Pan story is the stage play Peter and Wendy, which recreates the tale of the lost boy and the young woman who cares for him using Victorian-style marionettes. The story focuses more on the adults around Peter and Wendy, and the awfulness of watching children grow up. Any modern adaptation should pay attention to this play and try to capture its haunting imagery.

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8. Everyone Peter touches falls from grace. Wendy is a fairy dust-addicted drug mule for Peter and his gang. Hook is trying to save her.

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9. Childhood is a horror show. The message of the original Peter Pan was that childhood is a wonderful (albeit dangerous) place of fantasy adventure. But the movie Finding Neverland has completely ruined our ability to believe in that. We can't scrub from our minds Johnny Depp's portrayal of playwright J.M. Barrie's creepy, inappropriate relationship with the real-life Peter, who was pretty much scarred for life after being turned into the poster boy for childish innocence. So don't even try to sell us on that "childhood is great" bullshit. Let's see a movie that shows us how childhood is a time when you're controlled by capricious adults, manipulated by the media without any filters over your credulity, and your imagination is mined for product ideas. That's why only a pirate can be our hero - he steals childhood dreams back from Hollywood.

10. Aim at grownups. The only way to truly modernize Peter Pan is to make it a story for adults. Leave Hunger Games and Twilight for the kids. We want something ambiguous and dark.

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Feel free to use any or all of these ideas for your next Peter Pan story.