‘The King’s Speech’ Producer See-Saw to Adapt Children’s Classic ‘The Neverending Story’

After numerous efforts to reboot among the terrific dream standards of globe literary works, See-Saw Movies, producer of Oscar victors The King’s Speech and The Power of the Canine, has actually authorized a bargain to adapt The Neverending Tale as a collection of live-action attribute movies.

Michael Ende’s unique, released in German in 1979 and in English in 1983, adheres to the tale of a young child, Bastian Balthazar Bux, that comes under the globe of the titular dream publication The Neverending Tale, getting in the wonderful land of Fantastica. He ends up being the hero of the tale, charged with conserving Fantastica from damage.

A worldwide bestseller– it has actually been equated right into 45 languages and has actually offered countless duplicates worldwide– The Neverending Tale was adjusted as a trilogy of movies in the 1980s and very early 90s, the majority of notoriously by Wolfgang Petersen in The Neverending Tale in 1984. Both follows up, The Neverending Tale II: The Following Phase (1990 ), and The Neverending Tale III (1994 ), were not favored.

Michael Ende Productions and See-Saw Movies have actually obtained the legal rights to guide from Ende’s administrator, Wolf-Dieter von Gronau, and are creating movie adjustments. In a declaration on Wednesday, they stated they have actually begun “the process of finding the right creatives to bring the novel to life.”

“Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is a beloved book that has captured the imagination of generations of fans all over the world,” stated See-Saw Movies’ Iain Canning and Emile Sherman in a declaration.“Bringing literary worlds to screen is part of See-Saw’s DNA, and we are passionate about cinematic storytelling and entertaining audiences. We have such love for the book and are honored to be working with Michael Ende Productions on this collaboration to bring audiences back to Fantastica.”

Included Roman Hocke of Michael Ende Productions:“Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is more than just a story. It is THE story of all stories, because it tells us (that) without stories there would be no individuality, no personalities, no sense of meaning in the world. We want to transform this unique story into a great cinematic work of art for a wide audience. We feel lucky to have See-Saw Films by our side for this great task!”

Additionally to their movie job, See-Saw has an outstanding magazine of small-screen manufacturings, a lot of them publication-to- collection adjustments, consisting of AppleTV+’ Slow Equines and Netflix struck Heartstopper.

Iain Canning and Emile Sherman will certainly generate the adjustments for See-Saw Movies together with Roman Hocke and Ralph Gassmann for Michael Ende Productions. Hocke functioned as an innovative producer on current movie adjustments of Ende’s stories Jim Switch and Luke the Engine Chauffeur (2018) and Jim Switch and bush 13 (2020 ).

The group will certainly interact with Italian producer Lorenzo De Maio (The New Child, Alice and Jack) that will certainly work as an exec producer, together with Wolf-Dieter Von Gronau and See-Saw Movies’ Simon Gillis and Helen Gregory.

The bargain was worked out by Wolf-Dieter von Gronau in behalf of Michael Ende Productions and See-Saw Movies’ COO, Simon Gillis and lawyer Stephen Saltzman of Fieldfisher, in behalf of See-Saw Movies.