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[bggrthnjsus]

one time i was watching the neverending story while really stoned and for some reason i thought that you could probably just dub the audio from the neverending story over a movie about pedophiles and you'd get pretty much the same thing.

 

[thefit]

I was wondering when they would do this, it really was inevitable. Our age group has now infiltrated every section of America, enjoy it guys cuz in a couple of years we will have remakes of whatever your kid brothers and sisters liked.

 

[Snaku]

They're gonna make me watch Artax drown in a swamp again? D:

 

[Herpes Reasons]

omg omg omg. i need to cum on something.

 

[Tyrone Slothrop]

as long as they stay away from Goonies they can go ahead and remake any kids movie they want

 

[Jeff-DSA]

They're gonna make me watch Artax drown in a swamp again? D:

Dude, that was like the saddest scene for a kid ever until My Girl came out.

 

[wi@tt]

I was wondering when they would do this, it really was inevitable. Our age group has now infiltrated every section of America, enjoy it guys cuz in a couple of years we will have remakes of whatever your kid brothers and sisters liked.

well that's it time to acquire a very large drill and a dirty nuke, only one solution to this and that's just to help start the fault line moving

 

[Jeff-DSA]

I was wondering when they would do this, it really was inevitable. Our age group has now infiltrated every section of America, enjoy it guys cuz in a couple of years we will have remakes of whatever your kid brothers and sisters liked.

If Power Rangers ever gets the full Hollywood treatment, it's going to be too much for me.

 

[Ogni-XR21]

Yeah, it's considered his masterpiece, I believe. I always wondered if Momo in Xenosaga was named after Momo from his book, but I never read the book so I don't know if there are stronger parallels.

I don't know if the whole book could be captured in one film, though.

There actually is a Momo movie, don't know if it's available outside of germany/europe though...

They're gonna make me watch Artax drown in a swamp again? D:

Maybe this time they will make him talk like he does in the book. But yeah, this scene was really devistating when I was a kid.

 

[Concept17]

Meh. Do NOT want! Funny that I was just watching that episode of Family Guy with Falcore, though. :lol

Peter: Yeah!

Falcore: You're a little heavy buddy.

Peter: Yeah!

Falcore: We're going down...

:lol :lol Same here...

I recently watched this movie about a year ago. It was so awful. And I used to love it as a kid.

 

[Burger]

Who else had a pre teen boner for the Empress ?

 

[Spotless Mind]

Oh goddammit. Total Recall and this on the same day?

WHAT THE FUCK. This better be a joke!!!

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Who else had a pre teen boner for the Empress ?

Back in the day, she was right up there with Annie Mack and Winnie from The Wonder Years... I'm not going to lie to you.

 

[Raistlin]

*Guillermo del Toro please*
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[Richiban]

Make Falcor a dragon this time around please, not a friggin' floating poodle.

Also, let's see Yggramil the Many. Fuck yeah.

 

[Desperado]

If Power Rangers ever gets the full Hollywood treatment, it's going to be too much for me.

Do want.

 

[Ravidrath]

You know... I wouldn't hate this.

Loved the first movie as a kid, and read (and loved) the book.

The original movie is actually pretty faithful to the first half of the book... at least as I remember them. I would especially love to see them make a movie based on the second half of the book, which is... entirely different from the Neverending Story II. Bastian remakes Fantasia, turns himself into a buff hero-type, and more or less goes mad with power. I think some of his creations start turning against him, but it's all a bit blurry now.

And, while we're at it, make a movie of Momo, another awesome fantasy book by this guy.

Edit: I read Momo in the 5th grade, and it was so cool. Crazy, gray corporate-looking people stealing the "hour lilies" from people's hearts and making cigars out of them to sustain their non-existent selves. Not as crazy as the Wrinkle in Time series, but up there.

 

[neight]

I was actually telling my friend how a remake of this movie would be awesome. And look at the bright side, this will keep good fiction alive for all these new kids. Or is it really fiction...

 

[BlueTsunami]

*Guillermo del Toro please*
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If someone of that caliber gets attached to this then OMFG. The imagery of this series is so amazingly good.

 

[Night_Trekker]

Oh, the awesome, ageless CG wonders that await us!

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That would be the only way I would be anything but pissed off about this.

 

[neorej]

Who else had a pre teen boner for the Empress ?

Guilty as charged.

She aged quite well too.

 

[BlueTsunami]

I've always wanted to read the book, how is it? All I know is that the movie pulls ideas from the book but went its one way (or something like that)

 

[wi@tt]

*Guillermo del Toro please*
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ok so, wow! As long as he is at least Art Director it will be awesome! Please someone make that happen!

 

[Tieno]

Whiny nerds always crying about remakes, just stfu.

 

[AniHawk]

 

[B!TCH]

I actually remember watching this with my sister a long time ago and being really scared and amazed at this movie. It left quite an impression. I doubt a remake, which will undoubtedly use CGI in place of the puppets or whatever they used in the original, will be able to re-capture that feeling.

 

[faceless007]

THERE WAS A THIRD ONE?

Duh, it never ended.

 

[radioheadrule83]

Accompanied by a revamp of the Limahl song please!
And not a metal version or something. It must be just as cheesy and full of appregiators.

 

[Lakitu]

If Warner's "Where the Whild Things Are" does well, I can see Spike Jonze directing this. Also a potential franchise to replace Harry Potter when it ends in 2011.

 

[PhoenixDark]

One of my favorite films as a kid, and one of the more emotional flicks of my childhood. That being said, it hasn't aged well. At all lol

 

[sprsk]

 

[Dabanton]

In the hands of a good creative director a remake could be fun.

Lol G'Mork still gives me the creeps. You will never know how scared i used to be of him when i was younger.

 

[Cheerilee]

I hope they film it in Vancouver. The first one was partially shot over here. They could revisit some scenes, just so it feels right.

Who else had a pre teen boner for the Empress ?

Well, considering that she practically broke down the fourth (fifth, whatever) wall and begged you, the pre-teen viewer, to do her...

 

[Gart]

Just happened to have watched this a couple days ago and this thread pops up.

I think the first movie still holds up pretty damn well, I don't know what others are talking about.

The attention to the atmosphere and mood is still really well done.

Artax death scene. Have to turn volume up on this one. The sound is really low: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFUwp682Aw&feature=related

Confrontation with Gmork scene @ 1:34: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjW30BiJ5gw

 

[chase]

:|

Hollywood can't even come up with a fresh idea in the fantasy genre.

 

[rSpooky]

Sigh.... it just doesn't stop... ok whats next? WILLOW?
Let me guess , the kid will be played by will smiths kid ? I can see it happen already.


and total recall? really WTF?? off to google.

 

[Mato]

I adore the book and Michael Ende is my favorite writer ever since I was a child. But I think the old movie wasn't as good as the book. The idea of a movie with grand digital effects is really exciting to me. The NS world is just stunning and digital is the only way to be portraied.

Just got me thinking there's two possible routes they might go. If it ends up like Narnia it will suck, Narnia is souless as the devil. If it ends up like Coraline it will rock.

 

[rezuth]

This is one movie I feel needs a remake cuz it has not aged well at all.

 

[Fritz]

I've always wanted to read the book, how is it? All I know is that the movie pulls ideas from the book but went its one way (or something like that)

Man, go, get that book now. Its the fantasy novel of fantasy novels imho. It is incredibly imaginative and no cheasy tolkien fare at all. The themes it incorporates into the story are quite serious and relevant too. And all this in a nice and entertaining package.

That said, this material is hardly transferable to a movie. I think the first movie did a good enough job picking one theme, the nothing, and get a coherent watchable movie. I mean there is so much cool shit in the book.

I just thought about how I would illustrate Graograman (the lion in the desert of colors, dont know, if thats his name in the English version)the other day. Its such an awesome, awesome character.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Man, go, get that book now. Its the fantasy novel of fantasy novels imho. It is incredibly imaginative and no cheasy tolkien fare at all. The themes it incorporates into the story are quite serious and relevant too. And all this in a nice and entertaining package.

That said, this material is hardly transferable to a movie. I think the first movie did a good enough job picking one theme, the nothing, and get a coherent watchable movie. I mean there is so much cool shit in the book.

I just thought about how I would illustrate Graograman (the lion in the desert of colors, dont know, if thats his name in the English version)the other day. Its such an awesome, awesome character.

Nice to hear, thanks for the post!

This has always been the childhood movie for me... I can't believe I've only now thought about reading the book.

 

[beelzebozo]

"mr. simpson, this is the most flagrant case of false advertising since my suit against the film the neverending story."

 

[jett]

This remake will destroy my childhood.

 

[bionic77]

One of my favorite films as a kid, and one of the more emotional flicks of my childhood. That being said, it hasn't aged well. At all lol

I agree that it hasn't aged well.

They can improve on everything in this movie except for the music. You can't beat 80s movie music and there is no point trying.

 

[BlueTsunami]

You can't beat 80s movie music and there is no point trying.

Except for the music videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ZTrKPFwJc

 

[big_z]

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Hollywood can't even come up with a fresh idea in the fantasy genre.

Stardust is excellent and came out about year ago.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Stardust is excellent and came out about year ago.

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[bionic77]

Except for the music videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ZTrKPFwJc

:lol

The singer for that song so does not correspond with the image I had of him as a kid. I remember being very shocked when I first saw that video.

But even music videos were better in the 80s for the simple reason that there WERE music videos in the 80s and people actually watched them. Does MTV even show videos anymore?

 

[adg1034]

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At first, I got all happy, but then I was sad. Guillermo has his next decade pretty much booked solid.

After The Hobbit and its follow-up, Del Toro is scheduled to direct four films for Universal; Frankenstein; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; a remake of Slaughterhouse-Five; and Drood, an adaptation of a Dan Simmons novel due for publication in February 2009. He still has his sights set on filming At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft. Drood is expected to be his first project after the two films set in Middle-earth. These projects will fill up his schedule until 2017.

So, how do you feel about Alfonso Cuaron?


EDIT: You know, people always say how studio execs are nothing but empty-headed suits without any idea of how to make a movie work creatively, but it looks like at least some people had the right idea:

Del Toro turned down The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to do this film. Del Toro also received a Nebula Award for Best Script for his Pan's Labyrinth script. He turned down a chance to direct I Am Legend, One Missed Call (2008), Halo, and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (the latter being a movie whose predecessor was directed by Cuaron]] to work on Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

Overlooking the One Missed Call bit (the fact that someone even thought that this movie would be worthy of Guillermo's talents just blows my mind), it looks like the right studios had the right guy at the top of their lists for these films; it's just too bad he couldn't have directed all of them.

 

[JzeroT1437]

To everyone questioning the Total Recall remake, check out this thread:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353595&page=2

It's in the works, people.

 

[TheKingsCrown]

EWWWWWWWW