> Your Name wrote:
> Hollyweird showing it is still talentless and lazy now does yet
another remake.
>
>
> 'The Neverending Story' Getting New Film Series Adaptation
> From 'Slow Horses' Banner See-Saw
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> Falkor flies again!
>
> "The Neverending Story" - the beloved fantasy novel
from late
> German author Michael Ende that was famously adapted into the
> cult 1984 film - is being revived for the big screen once
> more, with a new joint-venture partnership between Michael
> Ende Productions and prestige tastemakers See-Saw Films
> bringing the world of Fantastica back to cinemas over
> multiple live-action films.
>
> The news brings to an end the race for one of the hottest
> fantasy properties yet to be tapped for modern audiences.
> Variety hears that Ende's estate had been fielding interest
> from across the globe over the last few years, including from
> studios and streamers.
>
> See-Saw - no stranger to adapting well-known literature for
> screen having been behind features including "Lion"
and
> "The Power of the Dog" and recent TV hits
"Heartstopper" and
> "Slow Horses" - has now teamed with Michael Ende
Productions
> to develop and produce the films. The new partnership has been
> granted "The Neverending Story" rights by Ende's
executor
> Dr. Wolf-Dieter von Granau. Iain Canning and Emile Sherman
> will produce for See-Saw alongside Roman Hocke and Ralph
> Gassmann for Michael Ende Productions.
>
> First published in 1979, "The Neverending Story"
became a
> bestseller in Germany and would be translated into 45
> languages, selling millions of copies worldwide. At the center
> of the story is the awkward but imaginative child Bastian
> Balthasar Bux who, while escaping from bullies, discovers the
> mysterious book "The Neverending Story," about the
heroic
> Atréyu and his mission to save the magical realm of Fantastica
> - a world of dragons, giants, vast kingdoms and deadly swamps -
> and its ruler, the Childlike Empress, from being destroyed by
> force known as "The Nothing." But the more he reads,
the more
> Bastian realizes he's not simply an uninvolved spectator and he
> soon finds himself transported into Fantastica himself, flying
> atop the luckdragon Falkor.
>
> "The story is both timely and timeless, and really has an
> opportunity to be told in a fresh way," said Canning,
speaking
> to Variety from the offices of "The Neverending
Story" literary
> agent AVA in Munich, Germany. "And part of the specialness
of
> the book is that you can go back to it at different ages in
your
> life and find different levels of meaning. So how wonderful
that
> we have this opportunity to do a fresh perspective that will
> have new layers and meanings. We just believe that every
> generation deserves their own journey into Fantastica."
>
> "We've been completely overwhelmed with interest from the
> television and film industry in recent years," added
Gassman,
> the AVA exec who works with Michael Ende Productions alongside
> Ende's longstanding editor and estate curator Hocke. "But
it was
> only about four to five years ago when we felt it was right to
> go back to Fantastica with new, fresher attention. So then we
> looked at hundreds and hundreds of requests and just thought,
> let's see if we find a potential partner amongst them that is
so
> compelling that they make us jump into the boat with them and
go
> on this crazy adventure. But we knew we had to do it right and
> find the right partner, and luckily See-Saw was amongst
them."
>
> For See-Saw, "The Neverending Story" - a much bigger
and more
> elaborate piece of material than it's used to handling - marks
> the next step up for the London and Sydney-based company, first
> founded in 2008 and made famous in 2011 with its Oscar-winning
> "The King's Speech" (adapted by the late David
Seidler from his
> own stage play).
>
> "Emile and I have always been very clear that, if we were
going
> to move forward on our journey, it had to be something really
> special that we were passionate about and connected to
> emotionally, so when this opportunity came about we just
thought:
> this would be so magical," Canning said. "Over our 15
years we've
> been very careful - whether it be for 'The King's Speech' and
the
> audience that loved that or 'Lion' and the audience that loved
> that, or 'Heartstopper' or 'Slow Horses' - about making quality
> material and that audience responding to it. This is such an
> opportunity to bring all that skillset together and do a full
> quadrant spectacle of a film."
>
> "The Neverending Story" also brings Canning back to a
conversation
> he had in See-Saw's very early days, before "The King's
Speech,"
> when he was asked which project he would most like to produce.
> "I said, do you know what, I'd really, really love to
adapt
> 'The Neverending Story,'" he explains. "I was
reminded of this
> recently, so it just feels in a way that the 15-year journey of
> See-Saw in terms of going from book to screen has led up to
here."
>
> The next task for the newly-formed partnership of See-Saw and
> Michael Ende Productions will be to find the right creative
team
> to bring the novel to life before packaging the project and
> seeking out distribution partners.
>
> "The journey, in many ways, starts now," Canning
said. "There's
> been a lot of anticipation from people who love this story
about
> what the next steps would be. For us, we now need to speak to
> writers and directors and hear their passion for the
material."
>
> Much of the details about the production - including the exact
> number of films to be made - will depend on the creatives
> assembled. But Canning said that the wildly colorful locations
> Ende described in "The Neverending Story" - including
the
> so-called Ivory Tower, Goab the Desert of Colors, Silver
> Mountains, Spook City, Silver Lake and the Swamps of Sadness
> (where Atréyu's horse Artax famously drowns) - lend the shoot
to
> being an "international global production." He added
that they
> would also look to maintain a connection to the book's heritage
by
> shooting some scenes in Germany (much of the 1984 film was
> actually shot in the Bavaria Studios in Munich).
>
> Although producers may be looking for a modern day adaptation
of
> "The Neverending Story," news of its return to
screens lands
> during something of a renaissance for '80s nostalgia, led by
shows
> such as "Stranger Things." It was actually
"Stranger Things" that
> saw "The Neverending Story" recently back in the
headlines, with
> Moroder's famed synth theme from the first feature adaptation
- a
> film Ende famously disavowed for deviating too far from his
> original story - being performed on the show and subsequently
> going viral online.
>
> Alongside both Michael Ende Productions and See-Saw, executive
> producers on the new films will include the L.A.-based former
> Endeavor Content exec Lorenzo De Maio and Ende's executor von
> Gronau as well as See-Saw's CEO Simon Gillis and creative
director
> Helen Gregory. Gillis and De Maio will spearhead taking
> "The Neverending Story" back out to the market once
packaged. The
> rights deal was negotiated by von Gronau on behalf of Michael
> Ende Productions and Gillis and attorney Stephen Saltzman of
> Fieldfisher, on behalf of See-Saw.
>
> For Hocke, whose career began with Ende in the early 1980s and
who
> worked closely with him for almost two decades until he died in
> 1995, the new "The Neverending Story" adaption is not
just the
> perfect opportunity to "make a new monument" for the
author, but
> to celebrate the art and importance of storytelling.
>
> "We need stories like we need the air to breathe and water
to
> survive. They give our inner worlds quality and with this
quality
> we make decisions of quality. Stories make the world
better," he
> said. "And 'The Neverending Story' is the story of all
stories."
>
>
>
>
https://variety.com/2024/film/global/the-neverending-story-new-film-adaptation-see-saw-michael-ende-productions-1235944716/We
need an actual sequel to NeverEnding Story III. That is why it was fun
to watch. The characters did not change but added on. We do not need a
stupid remake.
I assume it will be full of Lesbian, feminist rubbish, and
homosexuals, and soft men who should be hard.
I really miss Atrayu and the dragon-dog / dog-dragon that was a great
influence to many people everywhere.
We need to move forward not backwards. NESIV > NER
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