Disney's Live-Action Peter Pan Movie Has Found Its Tinker Bell

Grown-ish actress Yara Shahidi has been cast as Tinker Bell in Disney's live-action Peter Pan movie, Peter Pan and Wendy. Deadline reports that Shahidi, who is best known for playing Zoey Johnson in Black-ish and its spin-off series Grown-ish, is set to sprinkle pixie dust over herself to transform into the tinker-talented fairy from Peter Pan for the studio's latest live-action adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic tale. Shahidi will be the first woman of colour to take on the iconic role of the character, previously assumed by Julia Roberts in 1991's Hook and Ludivine Sagnier in 2003's Peter Pan. Shahidi celebrated the casting announcement on Instagram where she posted an illustration of herself as Tinker Bell. In the caption of the post, Shahidi credited the Instagram account @alexcollectsofficial for the artwork, writing: "Thank you for all of the love. It, truly, means so much to me. I'm excited for this next adventure!" Several stars joined in with the celebration, including Halle Bailey who was cast to play Ariel in Disney's live-action version of The Little Mermaid earlier this year. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/05/29/peter-pan-exclusive-clip-from-65th-anniversary-edition"] Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson are set to take flight with Shahidi's Tinker Bell as the two titular children in Peter Pan and Wendy, while Jude Law has been tapped to play Captain Hook in the upcoming movie, which will be directed by David Lowery and produced by Jim Whitaker from a script co-written by Lowery and Toby Halbrooks. Lowery and Halbrooks previously worked together on Disney's live-action remake of Pete's Dragon, which fared well with critics and audiences upon its release in 2016. IGN's review of the movie praised the script for "taking cues from the original but reimagining the story for a very different audience living in a very different era," with a "great cast, a believable dragon and beautiful cinematography." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-upcoming-disney-live-action-remake&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

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