Regression Obsession: The Neverending Story
Posted at 3:30 PM Mar 04, 2009
By Sharon SteelWe were considerably disturbed by last week's news that Warner Bros. is in the early stages of revamping The Neverending Story, a 25-year-old sci-fi franchise chronicling the adventures of a lonely boy who happens upon a book about a parallel world. As he reads, Bastian's life is intertwined in the lives of the novel's protagonists. A young Empress explains how he must save the universe from an evil force called The Nothing, and assigns a flying luckdragon to help him along on his hero quest. TEAM FALCOR.
If you haven't seen it in years, get thee to the Netflix, because it ages like a fine, fine wine. We'd venture to state that this classic 1984 fantasy doesn't require a "modern spin" -- we like it very much just as it is, thank you. Enough of the Hollywood remakes, already! To our relief, as of now, the studio has only managed to secure the puppet rights, and hopefully it will end there. The interweb fuss, however, did give us an excuse to hunt down the above Kid's Incorporated cover of The Neverending Story's theme song. Classic. Stick around for a performance of "The Goonies R Good Enough."
Comments
I'm totally against a remake of The Neverending Story, but if they really need to make it, then they should go all "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" on it and remake it by the book. Few people know that the movie franchise is a hacked up version of the German novel and that the real name given to the Childlike Empress is Moonbeam.
Posted 03/04/2009 at 08:15:42 PMWhy? The neverending story doesn't need to be remade. The movie was wonderful. Hollywood keeps remaking good movies and they end up being bad then (Pink Panther turned into crap now).
Very ironic timing, I just got the book to read a few days ago.
Posted 03/05/2009 at 05:33:17 AM