2 articles from 2009
26 February 2009 12:04 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Remember "The Neverending Story?" I honestly remember Limahl's pop song from the film more than the movie :happy
But I heard that the film will get the reboot treatment from "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" folks (the Kennedy/Marshall Co.) and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production.
Right now, both parties are in talks with Warner Bros. which acquired the rights to the franchise.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the new film "will examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first pic." Ooooh, nuanced, I'm so there!
I almost forgot that Wolfgang Petersen directed the original 1984 film after he made the fantastic "Das Boot."
Oh and did you know that the source material of the film is a German book written by Michael Ende called "Die Unendliche Geschichte?"
So why didn't they ask the "99 Luftballons" singer Nena to sing the original song? »
- Manny
26 February 2009 12:33 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
As the remake train continues to roll this one shouldn't come as much of a surprise as the title of the film alone tells us this one never ends. However, since Warner Bros. isn't making another sequel to 1984's The NeverEnding Story and in fact is planning on reboot, doesn't that sort of seem like cheating? Personally I have no interest in a remake of this film as it was probably my favorite film growing up. I must have watched The NeverEnding Story on HBO close to one hundred times, I just couldn't get enough of it. The fantasy film centered on a young boy who discovers an extraordinary storybook-and the fantastical world within its pages. The boy's life increasingly became 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. Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire, »
- Brad Brevet
2 articles from 2009
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