Moon Child
Jul. 24th, 2024 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenI'm feeling decent this morning, which is nice because the last few days I've felt terrible. I think I'm fighting off an infection. I can see my resting heart rate on Garmin edging up and staying higher, which is where I get the "infection" idea from. Since I was feeling unwell, my screen time went way up but, I found out something possibly interesting? I don't know.
They're planning to remake The Neverending Story as a series of live-action films. Michael Ende's group is working with someone called See-Saw, and anyway. The original movie was okay but I hugely enjoyed the book, which I may pull out and read again if I still have it. The little blurb that I read also mentioned releasing books set in the Fantastica world, so I was like ... hmm?
Back in the early 2000's a German publisher put out six novels based on NES, each taking a part of the original novel and creating their own story from it, expanding on the world. As far as I can find out, these works were never put out in English. Maybe that's what we're going to get? I hope so, because reading up on the authors who contributed, it looks like they'd be really good.
Fingers crossed on that one. I'll be following it, personally. I liked the original movie well enough but it basically stops before the second half of the story. But I'm also having super nerdy excitement about the possibility of reading those novels, minus the need to learn German.
They're planning to remake The Neverending Story as a series of live-action films. Michael Ende's group is working with someone called See-Saw, and anyway. The original movie was okay but I hugely enjoyed the book, which I may pull out and read again if I still have it. The little blurb that I read also mentioned releasing books set in the Fantastica world, so I was like ... hmm?
Back in the early 2000's a German publisher put out six novels based on NES, each taking a part of the original novel and creating their own story from it, expanding on the world. As far as I can find out, these works were never put out in English. Maybe that's what we're going to get? I hope so, because reading up on the authors who contributed, it looks like they'd be really good.
Fingers crossed on that one. I'll be following it, personally. I liked the original movie well enough but it basically stops before the second half of the story. But I'm also having super nerdy excitement about the possibility of reading those novels, minus the need to learn German.
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Date: 2024-07-24 03:37 pm (UTC)But in regards to NES, I loved the original! Unfortunately I never read the book it's based on, but the movie was one I really enjoyed as a boy. As for remakes, that's a whole other kettle of fish. I haven't seen any new movie in years, and frankly I don't have much enthusiasm for anything high budget these days. Although, maybe it'll be fantastic. Stranger things have happened ;-)
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Date: 2024-07-24 03:50 pm (UTC)As for NES, I've only seen bits and pieces of the first film and the second (neither in full), but I read that Michael Ende didn't care much for the original films and wanted his name removed from them, so I think remakes with his estate's involvement would be a good thing. I still would be interested in seeing the original films, though, and reading the original book as well.