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The Neverending Story is now being adapted into a new movie series... 40 YEARS after smash hit film was released


One year after the English publication, the novel was made into a smash hit Hollywood movie - though one that was despised by the book's author, who furiously denounced it as 'revolting.'

The story follows a dorky, motherless child who escapes his troubles by reading a book about a magical world called Fantastica, only to find that he has gotten sucked into the narrative himself and has to stop it from ceaselessly repeating. Wolfgang was fresh off the glowing reception of his Oscar-nominated World War II film Das Boot, and The NeverEnding Story marked his first project in English. The movie was a triumph at the box office and received a warm response from the critics, ultimately spawning two sequels; Jason James Richter is pictured in film three

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