No Houdini…But Maybe Blackbeard?

Javier Bardem will not be playing Blackbeard in the Joe Wright-directed Pan.

So enter Hugh Jackman?

Perhaps.

The Awesome Aussie is negotiating taking the swashbuckling part in the Peter Pan origin story. And he might be quite far along in his negotiating: Jackman just pulled out of starring on Broadway’s Houdini, which Aaron Sorkin and Danny Elfman, among others, have been working for like, the last three years (at least). If not longer: Elfman said in 2010 that he had been at it for a good couple of years.

WWHD?

I guess we shall have to wait and see.

Photo: FlicksAndBits.com.