Finding Neverland Trivia

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Director Cameo: [Marc Forster] one of the workers in the scene where J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) visits the costume room at the playhouse. (imdb.com)

This film was originally scheduled to be released in fall 2003, but Columbia Pictures, which had the rights to J.M. Barrie's play for their film Peter Pan (2003), refused to allow Miramax to use certain scenes from the play in Finding Neverland (2004) if it were released at the same time. Miramax agreed to delay the release of Finding Neverland (2004) by one year in exchange for the rights to use Barrie's words. (imdb.com)

Although the movie killed off Arthur Llewelyn-Davies before Sylvia and J.M. Barrie met, in reality, the couple were alive and well even at the play Peter Pan's premiere. (imdb.com)

In the film, Johnny Depp spies Dustin Hoffman's character reading through the Peter Pan playbill, mocking the character names. The original script, however, called for Dustin Hoffman to be dressed in Captain Hook's costume as he playfully read the playbill. Upon reading that scene, Dustin said to director Marc Forster, "I'm not being Hook (1991) again!" The script was then changed. (imdb.com)

SPOILER! At the end of the movie when J.M. Barrie is showing the play to Sylvia at her house, Peter Pan asked them to clap their hands to save Tinkerbelle. Julie Christie's reaction to this was to immediately start clapping. This was unplanned, and the children had no idea how to respond to it. The look of shock on their faces is real. (imdb.com)