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• Following tradition (in both theatre and film), the actor portraying Captain Hook is the same actor portraying Mr. Darling (Wendy's father). In this case, it's Jason Isaacs.
  
  
• With the exception of the Russian version, Piter Pan (1987) (TV), this is the first live action adaptation of J.M. Barrie's story to feature a male in the role of Peter.
  
  
• This is the first live-action film version of the story with sound. The Mary Martin versions (1955, 1956, and 1960) were preserved on kinescope and videotape, all for television, and the 1976 Mia Farrow version was also shown on television in videotape format; though it features the same characters and setting, Hook (1991) was not a version of "Peter Pan".
  
  
• The film is dedicated In Memory of Dodi Fayed, the son of executive producer Mohamed Al-Fayed. The younger Al-Fayed was executive producer of Hook (1991).
  
  
• The book Aunt Millicent is reading is "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells.
  
  
• The three dogs that play "Nana" are all male.
  
  
• When Captain Hook ('Jason Issacs') is dressing in his cabin, the tattoo on his left shoulder is the crest of Eton College, where Hook went to school.
  
  
• Jeremy Sumpter went from 5 feet tall to 5' 8" during filming. The window of the nursery had to be rebuilt 4 times because the actor kept hitting his head on it.
  
  
• Both Rachel Hurd-Wood and Jeremy Sumpter had to be hospitalized at different points in filming due to injury and exhaustion.
  
  
• According to Carsen Gray, when she's speaking to Hook, what she's saying is Iroquois for "You are the life-stealer. You are evil. You smell bad. You smell of bear-poop. You are many moons old and ugly."
  
  
• An alternate, yet unfinished, ending was shot to match the one in the book in which Peter meets the adult Wendy (played by the narrator, Saffron Burrows) and her little daughter Jane.
  
  
• "Jas." is a standard abbreviation for the name James which is why the sign on Captain Hook's cabin door reads "Capt. Jas. Hook". It is not, as many viewers assume, a reference to Jason Isaacs.
  
  
• During filming of the flying scenes Jason Isaacs fell out of the support harness and was left dangling, upside-down, by his ankles.
  
  
• The song Mr. Darling and the children sing is "When I Was A Lad" from Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore".
  
  
• The final budget for the film was kept silent, as the film went severely over budget, mostly due to the art department.
  
  
• "Nana" was a Newfoundland, a breed particularly good with children, not a St. Bernard as used in the film. J. M. Barrie modeled Nana after his own dog, a Landseer Newf. Newfoundland dogs were very popular in Victorian England and were actually used to supervise children.
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: When the bubbly-faced pirate is shot by Smee and plummets into the ocean, immediately after Tinkerbell is discovered holding the crocodile in mid-air.
  
  

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