Post by Hey Man on Mar 20, 2024 11:02:21 GMT -5
Michael Ende Productions and See-Saw Films have announced plans for multiple live-action films based on Ende’s 1979 German-language novel “The Neverending Story”.
The tale follows a ten-year-old boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux who happens upon a magical book that tells of a young warrior named Atreyu who is given the task of stopping the Nothing – a dark force engulfing the wonderland world of Fantasia.
As the boy delves deeper into the book, he increasingly finds his life intertwined with the plot of the novel.
The first half of the book was famously translated into a film in 1984 by filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen which became a smash hit. A lower-budgeted sequel in 1990 adapted elements of the second half with a wholly original story becoming a third film.
The plan is for this new version to examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first film.
Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Roman Hocke and Ralph Gassmann produce.
The tale follows a ten-year-old boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux who happens upon a magical book that tells of a young warrior named Atreyu who is given the task of stopping the Nothing – a dark force engulfing the wonderland world of Fantasia.
As the boy delves deeper into the book, he increasingly finds his life intertwined with the plot of the novel.
The first half of the book was famously translated into a film in 1984 by filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen which became a smash hit. A lower-budgeted sequel in 1990 adapted elements of the second half with a wholly original story becoming a third film.
The plan is for this new version to examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first film.
Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Roman Hocke and Ralph Gassmann produce.