It was no secret that Ende (1929-1995) disapproved of the cinematic version of his story. Bastian meets luckdragons, rock biters and many other mythical creatures.įive years after the book, star director Wolfgang Petersen and producer Bernd Eichinger made the movie adaptation.
The land is being devoured by an eerie nothingness. It’s about the adventures of Bastian Balthasar Bux, who escapes from reality where he is teased by his classmates into the “never-ending story.” He is drawn into a fantasy world in which the young hero Atreyu tries to save the fairy-tale kingdom Fantasia and its Empress. Ende’s estate administrator is contesting the son of a lawyer who once secured the film rights and contracted as a co-producer of the successful 1984 movie.Įnde’s great children’s novel came on the market in 1979. More specifically, who owns the merchandising rights? This question is the focus of a trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court.
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