NeverEnding Story Reboot In the Works
Hollywood has been creatively dead for the last 10 or 15 years, and the only way the industry makes money is by rebooting classic films (or making more worthless comic book movies). The latest potential reboot is The NeverEnding Story. Anyone with a brain who respects creativity won’t see this or even acknowledge its existence, but there are plenty of zombie consumers who still will, sadly. Via Deadline:
Children’s classic The NeverEnding Story could become the next major fantasy property to get a screen reboot.
While The Rings of Power and House Of The Dragon duke it out for TV ratings, I recently asked one European studio head which fantasy property could be the next IP to pop. Their answer: The NeverEnding Story.
It turns out a handful of streamers and studios, on both sides of the Atlantic, are chasing screen rights to the beloved property by the late German author Michael Ende. We have spoken to multiple interested parties and hear there are multi-million dollar offers on the table. German agency AVA represents the estate but declined to comment.
The original movie made $100M worldwide and garnered mixed reviews. Famously, Peterson contrived one of the key characters, Falkor the Luckdragon, as a giant dog instead of a dragon (reportedly because he wanted to make a friendly-looking creature that his son would find adorable).
Interest has crystallised in recent months and there seems a willingness from the estate to do business, emboldening film and TV companies, even if a stumbling block remains how much control the estate wants on the direction of the story.
[Deadline]
If they could, the sick bastards in Hollywood would undoubtedly try and reboot other classics like E.T. and Back To The Future, but thankfully, I don’t think the rights to those films will ever be released. The trailer for NeverEnding Story is here.
