Finding Neverland - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Finding Neverland or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Finding Neverland

[linda]

Ian Hart, who plays Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, had played Doyle's creation, Dr. John Watson (travelling companion and biographer of Sherlock Holmes), in The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002).

[beth]

The American theatrical producer Charles Frohman, played by Dustin Hoffman in this film, often worked in London and was indeed J.M. Barrie's usual impresario, also introducing the author's plays to Broadway. However, when "Peter Pan" opened for the first time in London, he was actually in New York, not present at the opening as this film shows. Also, whereas Dustin Hoffman's Frohman is repeatedly shown as being extremely dubious about the enterprise, the real Frohman was extremely enthusiastic about "Peter Pan" from the outset; it was J.M. Barrie who felt certain the play would flop.

[christina]

Although Barrie requests 25 seats in his audience for the orphans, there are only 15 orphans credited in the cast.

[kristina]

That large brown car that J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) drives is a 1910 Mitchell Model S Touring Car.

[richard]

While George is the oldest of the four boys, Nick Roud, who plays him, is actually a year younger than Joe Prospero, who plays his younger brother and the second eldest, Jack.

[ken]

Although Johnny Depp was only slightly younger making this film than J.M. Barrie was at the time of the events depicted, he is too tall for the role (Barrie was notably short, and sometimes joked that he was smaller than his dog) and plays it clean-shaven, whereas Barrie was almost always photographed with a huge walrus mustache.

[victoria]

Although Sylvia's mother is named as "Mrs. Du Maurier", the film makes nothing of the fact that Sylvia's father, who goes unmentioned, was the famous Victorian novelist George L. Du Maurier, author of "Trilby" and "Peter Ibbetson". This is curious, as the latter novel was greatly admired by J.M. Barrie, and his dog, Porthos, who features prominently in this film, was named, not after the character in "The Three Musketeers", but after Peter Ibbetson's dog in the novel. The real Barrie was very much aware of the theatrical and literary connections of the Llewellyn Davies family, which are not alluded to in the film.

[kenzi]

Johnny Depp was the first cast member to sign on to the film. Kate Winslet was next.

[nora]

Johnny Depp was so impressed with the performance of Freddie Highmore during filming that when Depp was cast for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), he specifically requested Highmore to play the title character of Charlie.

[francisco]

Marc Forster: One of the workers when J.M. Barrie visits the costume room at the playhouse.

[nina]

Laura Duguid, the youngest child's daughter, brought to the set the engagement ring that Sir J.M. Barrie wanted to offer to Sylvia with a proposal in real life. Sylvia died before he had the chance.

[brent]

According to producer Richard N. Gladstein, more than fifty directors passed on the project.

[jesse]

As of 2018, the only time Dustin Hoffman has appeared in a Best Picture Oscar nominated film and does not play a lead character.

[kenzi]

There were actually five Davies children. The fifth child, Nicholas "Nico" Llewelyn Davies, has a hard-to-notice spot in the play. He is part of the inspiration for Michael Nicholas Darling. Since he was very young, and many people in the play don't notice him, he wasn't included in the film. His daughter, Laura Duguid, appears in the film. After the first performance, she says something like, "You're Peter Pan?"