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On 3/20/2024 7:58 PM, 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 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/>

I dunno, that's a good résumé of flicks from See-Saw...