Slumberland (film)

Slumberland is a 2022 American fantasy adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman.

Based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, the film stars Jason Momoa, Chris O'Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia, and introducing Marlow Barkley in her film debut as Nemo.

She enters Slumberland where she befriends a renegade character who is involved in a plot to obtain a special pearl that may have the power to reunite her with her father.

In contrast to his brother Peter, Philip is a doorknob salesman who leads a lonely, boring, and monotonous life.

Nemo finds the map in the waking world and takes it back to Slumberland by sleeping through classes.

Nemo learns that Flip has refused to wake up for so long he no longer remembers who he is in the real world.

Flip is later imprisoned by Agent Green of the Bureau of Subconscious Activities (BoSA) for intruding on people's dreams.

Philip arranges a rescue boat captained by Carla and heads toward the lighthouse, terrified by the storm.

Peter appears and the two spend time together before he tells her that life is waiting for her in the real world and she cannot stay.

On March 3, 2020, it was announced that Jason Momoa would star in a live-action adaptation of the comic strip series Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from director Francis Lawrence, with Netflix distributing and production starting in the summer of that same year.

On October 12, 2020, Kyle Chandler joined the cast of the film, where Chris O'Dowd and Marlow Barkley had already been confirmed to star.

The website's consensus reads: "Winsor McCay's classic Nemo comics are fertile ground for the right filmmaker, but Slumberland forsakes the spirit of the strips in favor of senseless spectacle.