The first trailer for Benh Zeitlin’s Peter Pan-inspired ‘Wendy’
It’s been 8 years since Benh Zeitlin shocked everyone with his Best Director Academy Award nomination for Beasts of the Southern Wild (as well as giving the world the youngest Best Actress nominee of all time, Quvenzhané Wallis) and the first trailer to his long-awaited follow-up, Wendy, is here.
Wendy is inspired by the classic story of Peter Pan Lost where on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up.
Fox Searchlight will release Wendy in theaters on February 28, 2020. Here is the first trailer.
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He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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