Melissa McCarthy may not be the most obvious choice to play Peter Pan's glittering fairy pal, Tinker Bell, but that's where the comedy comes in, right? Fox has picked up a pitch by McCarthy and director Shawn Levy (Real Steel) for a comedy-adventure that will be written by Nicholas Stoller, fresh off the hit film, Neighbors.
What else do we know about it? Not much, except that it's meant to be a "fresh take" on the classic Peter Pan story. Levy is already in Fox's good graces with his Night at the Museum trilogy, and chances are he'll stick with the family-friendly tone. Audiences seem to love McCarthy no matter what she does (even the awful Tammy was a smash), and Stoller showed he can do more than raunchy comedies with his scripts for The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted. [Deadline]
