Warner Brothers, Leonard DiCaprio’s Appian Way and the Kennedy/Marshall Co. have teamed up to reboot the popular 1980’s movie franchise, “The NeverEnding Story.”
The first series ran for three films. The first two were released in theaters to modest success before finding a new audience on home video. The first film came out in 1984 and was directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
The second film was also released in theaters and the third went straight to video. The series is an adapatation of German author Michael Ende’s novel of the same name. The original film only adapated half of the novel into the first film.
The film centers on a boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux who discovers a parallel world in a book titled “The NeverEnding Story.” As the boy, a loner, delves deeper into the book, he increasingly finds his life intertwined with the plot of the novel, in which a hero in the land of Fantasia must save the universe on behalf of an empress.
The new movie will put a modern spin on the material by examining the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first feature, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A writer has not been hired yet to begin the adaptation of the novel. No word yet on a time table for production or who might be cast in the film nor any clue on how the world of Fantasia may be realized on-screen.
Well, it is never ending after all.
Tim