Ryth: I understand where you're coming from . . . "but remakes" have been the trend in Hollywood since . . . well, at least since 1939. The version of The Wizard of Oz that we're all familiar with? Remake. Based on the 1921 silent version. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings? Remake. 1978 animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi.

But the point that I'm trying to make is that like these films, the new film(s) based on the book The Neverending Story are NOT remakes. A "remake" implies that it is the new production team's intent to recreate the original movie (like the new version of Psycho, which was shot-for-shot identical). Oz, Rings, and so on and now The Neverending Story are attempts to ignore those previous versions for the most part and create NEW adaptations from their original book.

That's why I'm so jazzed about this. As wonderful as the first NES movie was, it paled in comparison to the book. The book is exponentially better.