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‘The NeverEnding Story’ Is Returning with a Very Unlikely Team Behind It · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The nineteen eighty four children's fantasy cult classic The Never
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  Speaker 2: Ending Story is as its name suggests, about a tale
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  Speaker 2: that never stops being told, so it's fitting that the
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  Speaker 2: franchise is finally returning to the big screen with an
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  Speaker 2: untold number of films planned. The fight over rights to
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  Speaker 2: the property was huge, with hundreds of production companies vying
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  Speaker 2: for it, so much so that the literary company owned
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  Speaker 2: it had their pick, which is what makes their choice
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  Speaker 2: even more compelling. The production company behind the revival, Seesaw,
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  Speaker 2: is very accomplished, but not immediately the ones you'd think
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  Speaker 2: would make a film aimed kids. They're best known for
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  Speaker 2: their very adult twenty eleven Oscar winner, The King's Speech.
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  Speaker 2: Seesaw producer Ian Canning feels they're actually not that different
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  Speaker 2: from his perspective, because it all comes down to one thing, passion,
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  Speaker 2: he tells Variety, We've always been very clear if we
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  Speaker 2: move forward on a project, it had to be something
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  Speaker 2: really special that we were passionate about and connected to emotionally.
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  Speaker 2: Over our fifteen years as a company, we've been very careful,
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  Speaker 2: like with The King's Speech, about the quality material and
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  Speaker 2: audience will respond to. This is an opportunity to bring
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  Speaker 2: all that skill set together and do a full spectacle
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  Speaker 2: of a film. The first never Ending Story is likely
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  Speaker 2: to go into production in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.