Bastian's interest in books leads him to ask about the one Coreander is reading, but the bookseller advises against reading it, saying that it is not a 'safe' story like regular books. One day on his way to school, Bastian is chased by bullies but escapes by hiding in a bookstore, annoying the bookseller, Mr. Coreander. Ten-year-old Bastian Bux is a shy and outcast bibliophile and lives with his widowed father. The third film, The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia (1994), has an original plot not based on the book. The second half of the book was subsequently used as a rough basis for the second film, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990). It adapts only the first half of the book, and consequently does not convey the message of the title as it was portrayed in the novel.

It was the first in The NeverEnding Story film series. It follows a boy who finds a magical book that tells of a young warrior who is given the task of stopping the Nothing, a dark force, from engulfing the wonderland world of Fantasia.Īt the time of its release, it was the most expensive film produced outside the United States or the Soviet Union.

It was produced by Bernd Eichinger and Dieter Giessler, and stars Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney and Moses Gunn, with Alan Oppenheimer providing the voices of Falkor and Gmork ( as well as other characters). The NeverEnding Story ( German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a 1984 fantasy film co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (in his first English-language film), and based on the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.

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