Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Actress Rooney Mara has been cast as Tiger Lily in 'Pan,' a Peter Pan reboot. 
 
 Rooney Mara is on her way to Neverland, but not everyone is happy about it. 
 
 The 28-year-old actress will play Tiger Lily in "Pan," a live-action adaptation of "Peter Pan" helmed by "Atonement" director Joe Wright, Variety reported. 
 
 Mara joins Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund in the film, a twist on the classic fairytale. In the world of "Pan," Peter is an orphan kidnapped by pirates and taken to Neverland where he must face off against Blackbeard. 
 
 But Mara's casting as Native American princess Tiger Lily provoked a backlash among Twitter users and Internet commenters, who felt that the role should have gone to an actress of color. 
 
 Rooney Mara's casting unleashed a torrent of backlash against the studio for whitewashing the part of Tiger Lily, a Native American princess. 
 
 "Rooney Mara is an incredibly gifted, insightful artist. But come on. You couldn't find a Native American actress to play Tiger Lily?!?!" one user wrote. 
 
 "Rooney Mara cast as Tiger Lily in new Peter Pan film because there are clearly no Native American actresses," another wrote. 
 
 Perhaps anticipating backlash, the studio pointed out to Variety that the Tiger Lily of "Pan" would be a different version of the Disney character. 
 
 Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for DIFF After the studio considered actresses Lupita Nyong'o and Adele Esxarchopoulos for the role of Tiger Lily, it chose Rooney Mara, pictured. 
 
 "The studio took on exhaustive search in finding the right girl to play Lily, looking at other actresses such as Lupita Nyong'o and 'Blue is the Warmest Color' thespian Adele Exarchopoulos before going out to Mara for the role," Variety reported. 
 
 "The world being created is multiracial/international — and a very different character than previously imagined." ||||| Warner Bros. has tapped Rooney Mara to play Tiger Lily in its Peter Pan origin tale “Pan.” 
 
 Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund are also on board with Joe Wright set to direct. 
 
 Sources say an open casting is being held to fill the role of Pan, as the character is between 10 and 12 years old. 
 
 Jason Fuchs penned the script with Greg Berlanti, Paul Webster and Sarah Schechter producing. Courtenay Valenti is overseeing for the studio. 
 
 The film will be a new take on the classic story. It is set during World War II and follows an orphan named Peter who is kidnapped by pirates and brought to Neverland, where he discovers he’s destined to save the land from the pirate Blackbeard. 
 
 The world being created is multi-racial/international – and a very different character than previously imagined. 
 
 The studio took on an exhaustive search in finding the right girl to play Lily looking at other actresses such as Lupita Nyonog’o and “Blue is the Warmest Color” thesp Adele Exarchopoulos before going out to Mara for the role. 
 
 WB dated the film for July 17, 2015, and sees it as a franchise that can appeal to the “Harry Potter” and “The Lord of the Rings” fanbase. 
 
 Mara just started production on the Todd Haynes pic “Carol” starring Cate Blanchett and was most recently seen in Warner Bros.’ “Her.” She is repped by WME and Management 360.
– Rooney Mara was recently cast as Tiger Lily in the Peter Pan origin movie Pan, Variety reported this week, and as the New York Daily News notes, the backlash has been fierce. Commenters and Twitter users were quick to point out that Mara is white, while Tiger Lily is Native American. "Rooney Mara cast as Tiger Lily in new Peter Pan film because there are clearly no Native American actresses," reads one representative tweet. The studio did tell Variety it considered other actresses including Lupita Nyonog’o and Adele Exarchopoulos for the role, and that the film's world (set during WWII) will be "multi-racial/international." But on Jezebel, Callie Beusman writes, "The movie will also star Garrett Hedlund (white person) and Hugh Jackman (white person). So, yeah, it kind of goes without saying, but a bunch of white people does not a 'multi-racial/international' fictional world make. And rewriting a character as white in order to squash complaints that you didn't hire a Native American actor is pretty s----y." The role of Peter has yet to be cast.