Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a 2016 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jane Goldman based on the 2011 novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Book) by Ransom Riggs. The film is an adaptation of the book.
The film stars Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O'Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson.
Synopsis[]
When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that stretches him across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
Cast[]
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- Eva Green as Miss Peregrine
- Asa Butterfield as Jacob Portman
- Ella Purnell as Emma Bloom
- Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Barron
- Allison Janney as Dr. Golan
- Terence Stamp as Abraham Portman
- Milo Parker as Hugh Apiston
- Louis Davison as Victor Bruntley
- Pixie Davies as Bronwyn Bruntley
- Finlay MacMillan as Enoch O’Connor
- Raffiella Chapman as Claire Densmore
- Cameron King as Millard Nullings
- Georgia Pemberton as Fiona Frauenfeld
- Hayden Keeler-Stone as Horace Somnusson
- Lauren McCrostie as Olive Abroholos Elephanta
- Judi Dench as Miss Avocet
- Ioan Hefin as Kev
- Jennifer Jarackas as Aunt Susie
- Justin Davies as Worm
- Chris O'Dowd as Franklin Portman
- Kim Dickens as Maryann Portman
- Rupert Everett as John Lemmon
- Robert Milton Wallace as Malthus
Development[]
Tim Burton is the announced director of the film.
Discussion around film companies about the movie rights to the book sparked months before the book was launched. The list of companies who took interest in "Peculiar Children"'s movie rights included Dreamworks/Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and more. However, Fox "made a big pre-emptive bid for the project" which hugely affected Riggs's decision . Riggs stayed silent until he announced the matter himself weeks after. Tim Burton was announced as director afterwards. Jane Goldman has also been hired to adapt the story as a screenplay. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark and Jenno Topping are producing the movie. In 2014, Fox announced that the July 2015 release of the film is moved to March 2016 and the first announcements began circulating that Eva Green and Asa Butterfield would play the part of Miss Peregrine and Jacob Portman alongside Ella Purnell as Emma Bloom. The Tampa Hillsborough Film and Digital Media Commission announced that Burton began shooting "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties for two weeks starting Saturday February 21. Filming also took place in the UK and Belgium. The movie was expected to be released on March 4, 2016, but was soon announced that the release was delayed until Christmas Day of the same year[1]. The movie's release date was later brought forward to September 30th, 2016.[2]
Differences from first book[]
- In the books, wights do not retain their peculiarities. In the film, they still have them.
- As such, Golan/Mr. Barron is presented somewhat differently. In the book, disguises and non-superpowered ingenuity allowed him to change identities, two of which were a bus driver named Mr. Barron and a psychiatrist named Dr. Golan. Though his true name is unknown, he was primarily thought of as Dr. Golan. In the film version, he uses his shapeshifting peculiarity to pose as a female psychologist named Dr. Golan as well as many others, but Mr. Barron is apparently his original name, dating back at least to the experiment that transformed him and his cohorts. It must be noted that this is quite different from the online rumor that Mr. Barron is an entirely new villain created for the film: it is a simple change in which name he primarily uses, and how the change of identities is achieved.
- The peculiarities of Olive and Emma are switched. Emma's peculiarity is changed to floating and having the ability to blast air out of her mouth (the latter of which Olive cannot do in in the books) while Olive's peculiarity is changed to pyrokinesis.
- Emma already knows that Abe is dead before Jake enters the loop.
- In the film, Fiona talked more. In the book, she only talked in emergencies. Her hair also appears to be braided nicely, while in the books she is said to have messy hair.
- Several of the children's ages are changed: Bronwyn, Hugh and Fiona are younger, while Olive and Enoch are older.
- Hugh does not wear the goggles worn by his book counterpart.
- The rising of a shipwreck from the underwater and the carnival are not events featured in the first book.
- The Masked Ballerinas, known only as "The Twins" in the film, physically appear and display their peculiarity. In the books, their peculiarity is unknown and they are not part of Miss Peregrine's current group of peculiar children.
- At the end of the film, Miss Peregrine can still transform from her peregrine falcon form to her human form, unlike in the book's conclusion, where she was unable to transform into her human form. In addition, Hollow City revealed that the bird from the end of the prior book was Caul.
- Abraham Portman was revived at the end of the film. He is deceased throughout the book series.
- Olive becomes the love interest of Enoch in the film, though in the book they only have moderate to little conversations and are not teens or of similar age.
- Miss Peregrine's loop is set in September 3, 1943. In the book, the year is 1940.
- Hollowgasts can enter loops, which they cannot do in the first book but become able to in subsequent ones.
- Hollowgasts specifically eat eyes. In the book, they savage the whole body.
- In the first part of the final battle in the film, where in the book there is one hollowgast and one wight, there is instead one wight and four hollowgasts, and also all of the peculiar children.
- Mr. Barron takes Jacob at knife-point and threatens to kill Jacob unless Miss Peregrine takes her bird form and willingly goes into a cage, whereas in the book, Jacob was not there for the kidnapping of Miss Peregrine, and Hugh was held at gunpoint.
- In the book, Miss Peregrine does not send anyone to get Jacob; instead, Jacob chases after and is taken prisoner by Emma, who accuses him of being a wight and takes him to Miss Peregrine with his hands bound. In the film, there are about five peculiars who go to retrieve Jacob and the pub is destroyed. He runs but is taken to the house when Emma and Olive save him.
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