June 12, 2025 By Larry Brenner, faculty, writing for TV, screen, and stage In our conversations on the Once Upon a Disney podcast, my co-host Andie Redwine and I had a discussion of who we thought the true villain of Peter Pan (1953) was. While the obvious answer is Captain Hook, I’ve always read Peter Pan as having a more subtle, sinister force operating behind the scenes. I recently revisited this conversation as we are preparing our book—working title Write Like a Mouse: Analyzing Di...
