Path: ...!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 21:59:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [NEWS] "The Neverending Story" remake From: danmin@danminart-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Danart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.current-films Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: newsSync 667041651 References: Message-ID: Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 21:59:05 +0000 Lines: 228 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-HvBIXZeLWTxfLCWJz/UYbI2UgS5fprUJtIn0LOu4pQ4At4yplFOQMSXy3hqk7KcAnzAvyG7NYlRsV+Q!wq25O0+BftqpfnqXcC5m2tdo2pVN0qel61nbnYumcmUHX3SnMUUFSzxvTPdIXwBaEP5awib3Fv3p!bg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 10367 X-Original-Lines: 1 > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========