True to its name, 1984′s “The NeverEnding Story” didn’t end after the first Hollywood movie. It spawned two sequels and a TV show, but as far as I can tell, the story didn’t really make that much of an impact on the American consciousness. As a result, I’m sure most people just remember that the story was about a dopey kid and a big flying dog or something.
If you’re clueless like me, THR was nice enough to go over the plot once again:
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.
The reboot is apparently going to “examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first pic”. I suppose only those of you who have read the Michael Ende novel will know what that means. The rest of us just remembers the flying dog. And the dopey kid.
Leonardo DiCaprio, who has had his fingers in a lot of sci-fi films of late (“Akira”, “A Brave new World”), will be producing the contemporary version of the story for his Appian Way.
