Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Neverending Story

6/17/09 - Producer Frank Marshall told reporters he was unsure about future installments of Jurassic Park and The Neverending Story.  As for a Jurassic Park sequel? "We'll have to see if they can come up with a story," Marshall said. "We don't have a story yet."  About the Neverending Story remake, Marshall said, "We love the book.  "We've always thought there was an opportunity there to tell a lot of elements that were in the book that weren't in the original movie. It's another one where we are still working on the rights. Once we get that, we'll bring on a writer. But it's off in the distance, but it's a great story."

2/26/09 - A reboot of the classic 1984 fantasy movie The Neverending Story is in the early stages of development at Warner Brothers under the Kennedy/Marshall Co. and Leonard DiCaprio's Appian Way, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The two production entities are reportedly in discussions with Warner 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 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 new movie—which original producer Dieter Geissler also will produce and Sarah Schechter and Jesse Ehrman will oversee for Warner—will examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first film.

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