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Rooney Mara in Talks for Pan’s Tiger Lily

Actresses Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara attend the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival outstanding performer of the year award on February 1, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California.
Actresses Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara attend the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival outstanding performer of the year award on February 1, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images

Mara would join Hugh Jackman (Blackbeard) and Garrett Hedlund (Captain Hook) in Joe Wright’s Peter Pan origin story, which will attempt to “challenge audiences’ pre-conceived notions about Neverland,” according to the Wrap. That is presumably code for “please don’t yell at us for casting a non-Native American actress as Tiger Lily.” Will it work?

Rooney Mara in Talks for Pan’s Tiger Lily