Tales from the Neverending Story (2001)

Genre

fantasy television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

L

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy named Bastian discovers a magical book that transports him to the land of Fantasia. He follows the warrior Atreyu on a quest to save the Childlike Empress from a spreading darkness.

whimsicalnostalgicfantasticallightheartedadventurousdreamymysteriousimaginative

What happens

Tales from the Neverending Story is a single-season TV series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's 1979 novel The Neverending Story, produced (in Montreal, Quebec, Canada between December 2000 and August 2002) and distributed by Muse Entertainment, and aired on HBO in 2002. It was aired as 4 two-hour television movies in the US and as a TV series of 13 one-hour episodes in the UK. The first two television movies were released on DVD and VHS in 2002, followed by a complete series box set in 2004. Departing from the canon of the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, the overall story in the series explored the origin story of how Bastian discovers Fantasia from an even greater point of divergence from Michael Ende's novel than the 1984, 1990, and 1994 Warner Bros. films had previously depicted. Events from the novel occur out of order, and specific plot points are reversed between characters. For example, in the novel and films, it is Bastian who enters the world of Fantasia, but here it is Atreyu who enters the real world. The concept of Yin and yang is introduced by altering the nature of the Childlike Empress's relationship with Xayide. In the series they are sisters with opposing ideologies. The Old Man of Wandering Mountain also takes on a larger role in the series becoming a mentor of sorts to Atreyu in much the same way as Karl Konrad Koreander is for Bastian. The series also introduces new supporting characters. Lucas and Marley are Bastian's friends who try to defend him from school bullies, and Fly Girl is a heroine whom Atreyu meets who is on her own Quest. Tales from The Neverending Story is the first live action adaption not to feature the Rockbiter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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