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Great Ormond Street Hospital entrusted the film and TV rights for Peter Pan in Scarlet to BBC Films back in December 2006. The official sequel to Jm Barrie's original book, Peter Pan in Scarlet was written by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean in 2005.

BBC Films have now announced at Cannes that the film is officially in development with Paul King (Bunny and the Bull) bringing his unique imagination and screen writing skills to the project. Infused with the mischievous spirit of Barrie’s original, this restores a distinctly British flavour to the famous story and will be produced by Stewart Mackinnon at Headline Pictures.

In Peter Pan In Scarlet grown-ups become children again, as Wendy, John and the Lost Boys join Peter Pan for more adventures.

Neverland is sadly changed but the spirit of Captain Hook lives on. Wendy and the Lost Boys are dreaming of Neverland. Strange. because they have all grown up.

LONDON -- The U.K. Film Council, U.K. production banner Headline Pictures and BBC Films have united to secure the film and television rights to Peter Pan in Scarlet, the recently penned, officially sanctioned sequel to J.M. Barrie's classic children's tale Peter Pan, the companies announced Monday.

The decision to grant the consortium rights to Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan In Scarlet was made by the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Trustees.

The deal was brokered on behalf of GOSHCC by Charlotte Mann of the Rod Hall Agency Ltd. with the consortium members.

GOSHCC executive director Charles Denton said he couldn't be happier to be "partnering with Headline Pictures, U.K. Film Council and BBC Films in this exciting new development."

"We have no doubt that they will help to build on the ongoing success of Geraldine McCaughrean's brilliant sequel, which will continue to raise vital funds for GOSHCC in the way J.M. Barrie had intended when he gifted the copyright to 'Peter Pan' to the hospital," Denton said.