The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 fantasy film co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is based on the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive film produced outside the United States or the Soviet Union. The film follows a boy who happens upon a magical book that tells of a young warrior who is given the task of stopping the Nothing.
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The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 fantasy film co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is based on the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive film produced outside the United States or the Soviet Union. The film follows a boy who happens upon 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. It stars Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn, and Alan Oppenheimer as the voices of both Falkor and Gmork. The first film 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. The second film was subsequently used as a rough basis for the second film, The NeverEnded Story II: The Next Chapter. The third film, Escape from Fantasia, has an original plot not based onThe book and is the first in a series of three films based on The Never ended Story films. It was released in the U.S. on November 14, 1984. It has since been released in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the UK on November 17, 1985.
It also has a UK release date of November 25, 1986, and an Australian release date on November 28, 1987. The US release date is November 30, 1987, and a UK Release date of December 8, 1987 (both in the UK and Australia) The film is also available on DVD and Blu-ray in the US and Europe. The UK release dates of the film are November 29, 1989, and November 30th, 1989 (in the UK, November 29th, 1990, and October 9, 1991, in the USA and Canada). It is the only film in the series to be released in both English and German. The book describes a young boy named Atreyu who is tasked to find a cure for the Childlike Empress who rules Fantasia and stop the Nothing from devouring the world. The Nothing summons a vicious and highly intelligent wolf-like creature named Gmorks to kill him. Bastian Bux is a shy and outcast bibliophile who lives in the fictional city of De Forest, Washington. He secretly takes the book and hides in the school’s attic to read it. He eventually meets the Southern Oracle, who tells him the only way to save the Empress is tofind a human child to give her a new name.
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