or "The Dark is Rising" factor - a potent combination of all of the above, where they take an insanely amazing set of Newberry award winning books from the 70's building on Arthurian Legend, combine them with crappy casting, awful writing, and the complete dumbing-down and re-configuration of the story and thenrename it something retarded like "The Seeker".

ARTAX! ARTAX! Don't give into the sadness!

I love the song! It tends to get stuck in your head, though. I don't know what I think about a remake; it could go either way. I would love to see a good one, since this was one of my favorite childhood movies, but it would probably end up being terrible.

They'll add a villain so that the movie can end with a boss fight.

Remaking this movie is almost as bad an idea as E.T. 2.

God, the original film was such shite compared to the book.

This was one of my two all-time favorite movies when I was a kid. I still have a worn-out VHS copy that I refuse to part with. I am horrified at what might become of this (but there is a tiny part of me that will hold out hope that it could actually be good).

As others have mentioned, I wouldn't be surprised if the filmmakers wanted more of a villian. I foresee an expanded focus on Gmork (in full CGI glory).

And the book is fantastic.

Why can't they just rerelease and remaster the old one so that it looks better for our CGI-jaded youngsters (I'm 25, btw: this movie kicked A$$) instead of throwing money into a horrible remake? Unless the original movie left out a whole ton out of the book leave it alone. Stop tainting my childhood memories!

Agh! Why do people keep remaking perfectly good movies? If it ain't broke, don't fix it, please! The special effects are looking pretty dated, yeah, but even if they put in state-of-the-art CGI this movie will fail unless they can capture the original spirit of the film, which I highly doubt.

I had forgotten about the horse dying... that was awful. And now I'm just praying that they never, EVER remake The Princess Bride. Please keep some of my childhood sacred, movie remaking people!

I'm 39 and my 18 yr old loved it when she was a kid and my 7 & 5 yr old love it too. I think a lot of kids like the classics just the way they are. LEAVE IT ALONE. Remakes just taint the classics!

PLEASE NO !

Bot hof my daughters grew up watching this over and over (along with Last Unicorn). I really enjoyed it too. It is so nice and you erally care what happens to everyone.

Redoing some movies turns out fine, but NOT Neverending Story

NO

NEVER

It could go either way. But I don't think there can be a middle ground.

I LOVE the movie myself. I love it so much I don't even notice the special effects.

With the right director, right actors, crew, etc., it could be absolutely stellar. However, if they make a mistake in ANY of those, then it will be a truly epic fail.

Anyone who tries to remake will need to have big brass ones to do it. And God help him if he screws up.

This is one of my favorite movies from childhood. I had a major crush on Atreyu. I cried when Artex died, I feared Gmork and I still can't figure out the Empress' new name! (were we ever meant to know?)

If they re-make this, they better do a damn good job.

I will not camp out for tickets and I will not go to see it opening weekend or the second weekend. But, if the re-make gets good reviews (from actual fans, not critics), I'll consider checking it out.

It's funny because I rewatched this like 3 days ago. I still love it. Yes, the special effects are dated but SO WHAT! It's a fantastic movie, the music is incredible and you cannot recapture that feeling the first one gave the viewer with CGI. The casting was also impeccable. I'd rather see the original remastered than remade.

I...I can't think of anything to say except

NOOOOOOO!

I'm with everyone that this should be left alone. Someone wants to remake Clue as well, and that should be left as is too. Is Hollywood really so low on ideas that they have to remake classics from the 1980's? What's next, a redo of Risky Business?

They did enough damage with the two god-awful sequels. I'm still trying to pretend those never happened, let's not remake the original so I have to figure out how to block that from my mind too.

If they remake this and ruin it (almost inevitable if they even try, I think) I can see an army of 20-and 30-somethings demanding someone's head.

Besides, I can't take an updated version of Artax dying in the swamp.

This is a generational thing, clearly. I was old enough when the movie came out to have already read and passionately loved the book. There was no way I was going to have my internal images sullied by going to see a movie that was getting such awful reviews. If you first saw the movie as a kid, it is clearly a precious memory. but I would be happy to have a remake in the style of the Harry Potter movies. Why not?

I hated the movie of The Never Ending Story. It bored me to death while I was forced to watch it. I hope it doesn't get remade, one was too many.

I loved the movie. My dad saw it on cable (1982ish) and made my sister and me watch it when we got home from camp. Eventually I bought the book. Ironically, I could never finish reading it...

Given what that film version did to the book, it's almost karmic that it should get remade.

Of course it's debatable if the remake will do any more justice to the book.

Yes, the movies we see when we're 5 years old always remain The Greatest Movie Ever. I have no wish to wreck a treasured childhood memory for anyone.

But I'm with those for whom the movie is a disappointing mess for anyone who read the book. (And, like The Princess Bride, this story is in part about honoring the magic of books, right?) It does indeed lop off the last half of the book, which is the half that makes it extraordinary and not just another fairy tale. And although in the book the Empress's new name is indeed Moonchild, in the movie they chose to have him screech something unintelligible. Way to blow a climactic suspenseful moment, guys.

So: I do think that there absolutely is a legitimate reason to make a new movie of this story, if it were done right. Whether that will actually happen is, of course, another matter. I have trouble thinking of a movie "remake" of a good book that was superior to the first filming, even when there was plenty of room for imrovement.

Hear, hear, Angel! I agree 100% with you and most of the comments. That movie is so wonderful. I saw it as a young child and the images stayed so clear in my head that 20 years later when I caught it on TV, it was exactly how I remembered. Rarely does that happen. I love the song as well. LOL.

Actually, Bastian's new name for the Empress' in the German original novel is indeed "Mondenkind".

If they really want to go back to The Neverending Story, why not instead digitally remaster some effects in the old movie, like the blue screening, and then make a new sequel that covers the second half of the book, instead of those two travesties they called sequels.

Studios should get it into their heads than not everything is better with more CGI. And even today good CGI takes a lot of money; otherwise you end up with crappy CGI that looks way worse than puppets or animatronics, because puppets at least *are* real. The Dark Crystal for example is still a great and enchanting movie. Yoda from the old Star Wars trilogy doesn't need to be "prettied up", either.

If they want to remake a movie based on one of Michael Ende's boks, why not remake Momo" instead?

Has the writer of this article actually seen Bridge to Terabithia? It is very, very light on CGI, and does complete justice to the book it is based on. Don't judge a movie based on the trailer, please.

Came to agree with the other TMNT fans... the original comics, the first live-action movie, and the 2003 cartoon were all much darker than the cartoon from 80's and early 90's. It's a story of vengeance and alienation, not a "cute cartoon about crime fighting." Research, do some.

yes, the new name was moonchild--it's kind of hard to understand him when he shouts, but that's what it is in the book. it's also kind of entertaining because in the movie, didn't he say he'd give her his mom's name? moonchild, heh.

anyway, i'm one of those who has both read the book and seen the movie and i love both dearly. in fact, i recently received the movie on DVD from a friend and watched it just the other night, and everything i loved about it in the beginning still holds my love now.

while i think it would be interesting to see a movie made that follows the book more closely, i just have a really hard time having faith enough in hollywood not to crap all over it. i actually liked the remake of charlie & the chocolate factory because it was kind of a completely different animal from the original, and i could see that being the case here. i think it all depends on who is tied to the project. burton's a genius, after all, and maybe if he were to do a neverending story reboot, we wouldn't all be panicking. i guess i'm going to take a "wait-and-see" stance, but my loyalty is sworn to the original.

also, hollywood should leave clue alone. best movie EVAR. :)

About how long is this current remaking/rebooting phase that Hollywood is in? Whatever happended to originality?

They should DEFINITELY make a sequel because the second half of the book is even better than the first. But instead of remaking the first half of the book they should just rerelease the old one a few months before the new one (sequel) comes out. A single line about how everything is a little different in the fantasy world (especially after The Nothing)could gloss over the change in actors.