Warner Bros. Movie World Germany Neverending Story

The book/film was back in the headlines a few years ago thanks to Stranger Things, when Dustin and Suzie perform a memorable rendition of the film’s popular synth theme song. Famously, Peterson contrived one of the key characters, Falkor the Luckdragon, as a giant dog instead of a dragon (reportedly because he wanted to make a friendly-looking creature that his son would find adorable).

The original movie made $100M worldwide and garnered mixed reviews.

A third film, The NeverEnding Story III: Escape From Fantasia (released in 1994 and featuring a young Jack Black), has an original plot not based on the book. The film adapts only the first half of the book but 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). At the time of its release, the iconic movie, produced by leading German producer Bernd Eichinger (co-founder of Twilight studio Summit), was the most expensive film produced outside the US or USSR.

Warner Bros. Movie World Germany Neverending Story