One idea for a story that I've played around with for a while and never really gotten to work, and I guess I'm just releasing into the wild now, is a "Guide to the Adult Rereading of Peter Pan." The ending of this book is incredibly dark, dark, dark, and nobody knows it because of the Disneyfied version we all grew up with. I never read the book as a kid; I only found out the real ending of the book when I stumbled across it on the 'net last year. Check out the last chapter:

Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when Peter came for her at the end of the first year. She flew away with Peter in the frock she had woven from leaves and berries in the Neverland, and her one fear was that he might notice how short it had become; but he never noticed, he had so much to say about himself.

She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.

"Who is Captain Hook?" he asked with interest when she spoke of the arch enemy.

"Don't you remember," she asked, amazed, "how you killed him and saved all our lives?"

"I forget them after I kill them," he replied carelessly.

When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, "Who is Tinker Bell?"

"O Peter," she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.

"There are such a lot of them," he said. "I expect she is no more."

He doesn't even remember Tinker Bell. That's cold. And things get colder.

All this is a long way of saying that I just can't imagine how any writer could possibly write a sequel to this book, given the circumstances of the ending. But someone's been chosen to do just that.