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Studios Are in a Bidding War for the Rights to This Legendary 80s Fantasy Movie · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. With seemingly every major fantasy,
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Speaker 1: superhero and kids movie from the eighties and nineties being
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Speaker 1: given a reboot treatment, it may seem like no truly
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Speaker 1: iconic franchises remain, but there is one beloved slice of
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Speaker 1: eighties nostalgia that might be returning next, The Never Ending Story.
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Speaker 1: The first film tells the story of a boy who
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Speaker 1: discovers a fantasy book and then he becomes a part
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Speaker 1: of it, and features the iconic dog Dragon Falcore. It
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Speaker 1: spawned two follow ups, and Deadline reports that multiple streamers
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Speaker 1: and studios are pursuing the rights of the popular trilogy
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Speaker 1: of films and the German book they're based on, which
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Speaker 1: was translated into more than forty languages, meaning it's got
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Speaker 1: fans worldwide. So which studio will get the rights? Will
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Speaker 1: they do it justice? We will wait and we will see.
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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.