‘Tink’, Live-Action Series Based On Tinker Bell, In The Works At

Tinker Bell, Disney’s iconic fairy from Peter Pan, is getting the live-action television treatment.

Deadline understands that Disney+ is developing Tink, a drama series featuring the character, from Liz Heldens and Bridget Carpenter.

The studio has been plotting an updated version of the classic character originally created by J.M Barrie for some time and it is a major project for the streamer.

Tinker Bell first appeared in Disney’s 1953 animated movie Peter Pan and has appeared in countless movies and series over the last 70 years.

A live-action feature named Tink was previously in development in 2015 with Reese Witherspoon set to play the lead. This project was retooled in 2021 after Gary Marsh, who was President and Chief Creative Officer at Disney Branded Television stepped down and set up his own Disney-backed banner.

In 2023, Black-ish star Yara Shahidi played Tinker Bell in live-action film Peter Pan & Wendy

Marsh is exec producing the series, which comes from Disney’s 20th Television. Heldens and Carpenter are writing and exec producing with Quinn Haberman from Heldens’ production company Selfish Mermaid also exec producing.

Heldens and Carpenter are long-time friends who worked together on the Friday Night Lights series. Heldens, who started her TV career on Boston Public, became a co-exec producer of the football drama series, before creating NBC medical drama Mercy, ABC crime drama Deception, Fox sci-fi thriller The Passage, and NBC dramedy Camp and Fox’s The Big Leap. She has also exec produced Fox’s The Orville and Hulu’s The Dropout and is currently co-showrunner on ABC’s Will Trent, which is in its fourth season.

Carpenter got her start on Showtime’s Dead Like Me before eventually becoming a co-exec producer on Friday Night Lights, where she worked on all five seasons. She created Hulu’s 11.22.63, the Bad Robot-produced series based on the Stephen King novel, and has written and produced series including Parenthood, The Red Road, Westworld, King Shaka and Only Murders In The Building. She is also a respected playwright.

Heldens is repped by WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox and Carpenter is repped by CAA, Artists First, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.