Hook - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[russell]

When Peter first sees Tinkerbell in the nursery, she crashes into the dollhouse and falls. He keeps calling her "little bug". In FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Robin Williams did Batty's voice and said this to the main character Crysta, "Oh, you're a strange little bug."

[jessie]

Gutless, the male bearded pirate who is locked in the "Boo Box" with scorpions, was played by Glenn Close.

[melinda]

Originally slated to be the premier movie for Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (SDDS) in theatres, but development was delayed. SDDS premiered with Last Action Hero (1993) instead.

[jamie]

Matt Damon can claim several connections to this movie. Damon worked with Director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan (1998). Damon worked with Robin Williams on Good Will Hunting (1997). Damon worked with Julia Roberts on Ocean's Eleven (2001) and Ocean's Twelve (2004). Damon worked with Gwyneth Paltrow (Young Wendy) on The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Contagion (2011).

[victoria]

In Phil Collins' autobiography "Not Dead Yet", he recalls his scene, which was shot in two ways, a longer original version and a truncated version he thought was inferior. According to Collins, Dustin Hoffman disliked the longer version and urged director Steven Spielberg to go with it. Spielberg explained that he had to use the shorter version during an after-party at the premiere.

[sylvia]

When Peter gets his cell phone thrown out the window and the dog goes to bury it, a fake plastic cell phone with a sticker of a number lands in the hole where the dog drops it.

[morris]

Peter (Robin Williams) calls Rufio (Dante Basco) a very ill-mannered young man; in the novelization for Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Watson thinks that sometimes of Holmes. Also, Watson has a fear of heights, like Peter Banning. Steven Spielberg was a producer on Holmes.

[ethel]

Dustin Hoffman appeared in two movies about Peter Pan, this movie and Finding Neverland (2004). Following his appearance in this movie, close friend and former roommate Gene Hackman began calling him "Hook" as a joke. The name stuck, and his contemporaries call him by that nickname to this day.

[kyle]

Winona Ryder was considered for the role of Tinkerbell.

[victoria]

Robin Williams' upper body and arms were shaved for his role.

[sara]

The kissing couple who begin to float when some fairy dust lands on them were George Lucas and Carrie Fisher in a cameo.

[duane]

Robin Williams stars as an adult Peter Pan who sets out to rescue his children from his evil adversary, pirate Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Eleven years earlier, Robin Williams portrayed the classic cartoon character Popeye the Sailorman in Popeye (1980), whose nemesis Bluto (Paul L. Smith), was a pirate.

[nora]

Steven Spielberg admitted to being disappointed with final result of the movie. He had such a hard time working with the rebellious crew of young actors that he later said, only somewhat kiddingly, that the experience made him wonder if he wanted to have any more kids. He also felt guilty that he wasn't able to find an economical method to filming the many complex human-flight sequences in this movie. However, after Robin Williams' death, Spielberg says he is now thankful he made this movie, as that was how he met Williams and became good friends with him.

[alyssa]

Jack was the name of one of the boys for whom author Sir J.M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan (and later of whom became the adopted father). The five boys were George, Jack, Nicholas, Peter, and Michael Davies.

[brent]

Julia Roberts was nicknamed "Tinker Hell" because she was difficult to deal with, a reaction to her working conditions of solitude and greenscreen.

[bessie]

This is the first movie on which Dustin Hoffman worked with composer John Williams. The second being Sleepers (1996).

[jessica]

When Mr. Smee (Bob Hoskins) shouts "Good morning, Neverland" it is a nod towards Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), where Robin Williams said "Good morning Vietnam" repeatedly throughout the movie.

[phyllis]

When Peter sees Wendy's granddaughter, the poster behind her bed is for The Beatles' movie A Hard Day's Night (1964). As that movie was released in July of 1964, and Peter would visit in the spring, this would make it the spring of 1965, which is twenty-six years before the story begins. As Spielberg wanted Peter and Moira to be in their early forties, this would mean that Moira was born around 1950. As Peter is shown as a baby in approximately the year 1890, this would mean that he is chronologically about sixty years older than her. Another clue is in the dialogue between Pan and Hook towards the end, in which Pan remembers Hook as being much larger. To this, Hook responds, "To a ten-year-old, I'm huge. These figures are obviously inexact. What is known is that Sir J.M. Barrie published Peter Pan in 1904.

[caroline]

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