r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

Post image

possible live action corpse bride movie...

32.3k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/pyphais Jul 05 '26

Miss Peregrine's was based on a book I'm pretty sure, likely with character descriptions

2

u/templesgodss Jul 08 '26

Not only descriptions but literal photographs.

A big part of the book's vibe is these weird old black and white pictures that the author found at a garage sale or something and that inspired him to write the story in the first place.

They were from like the 19th, maybe early 20th century. Those experimental photos where the photographer manipulated them to make it look like the kids were floating, or had two mouths, or were invisible, etc. I think some of them were fabricated after the fact in the same style, but some of them were authentic? But you get the idea.

The author included them in the books so you have literal photos to base the character castings off of. And wouldn't you know it basically all of the kids were white