Neverending Story remake coming

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.mania.com/neverending-wil...le_113348.html

There may be some truth to the possibility that The NeverEnding Story is never going to end. Or to be more precise, a new NeverEnding story will replace the old one. Warner Bros. and a pair of top-tier production banners are in the early stages of a reboot of the 1980s children's fantasy classic.

The Kennedy/Marshall Co. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Leonard DiCaprio's shingle Appian Way are in discussions with Warners about reviving the 25-year-old franchise with a modern spin. The studio recently acquired rights to the property, clearing the way for a potential remake.

The new pic -- which original producer Dieter Geissler also will produce and Sarah Schechter and Jesse Ehrman will oversee for Warners -- will examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first pic.

Plot Concept: Born out of a German-language novel by Michael Ende, 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.

Wolfgang Petersen directed and Neue Constantin produced the original for Warners, which earned a respectable $20 million when it was released in 1984. The film has had a long life on home video and an even larger influence on popular culture, prefiguring Harry Potter and other present-day children's fantasies.

A sequel directed by George Miller came out in 1990 and earned $17 million; a third movie followed in the U.S. in 1996 but quickly went to video. Those familiar with the project emphasize that it is in its early stages and that writers have not been attached.

Well... I dunno... there was already a remake...a live action tv series that lasted a couple seasons....The Princess had an evil sister...plus there was an animated series.... I love the movies and all but Im not sure another remake is needed. I'd probably end up watching it tho..

*sings the theme song* Turn around...look at what you see....in her face..the mirror of your dreams....Make believe I'm everywhere, living in your eyes...Written on the pages is the answer to a never ending story.