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Sequel | Dragon
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Best Performance by a Younger Actor | 1992 | Jonathan
Best Young Actor Costarring in a Motion Picture | 1992 | Kenny
Best Family Motion Picture Drama | 1992
Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture | 1992
Budget 32,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 16,283,667 USD
It is not known who played the Rock Biter in the movie and the actor is not credited in the end credits and to this day the actor's identity remains a mystery.
Bastian made 33 counted wishes total, and that counts for wishes within a wish, and each individual step along the side of the hand-shape castle.
Thomas Hill is the only actor to reprise his role, as Koreander the bookkeeper, from the original movie. The child actors had to be recast as they had visibly gotten older in the 6 year gap between the films, and they no longer looked the same age.
The film was to begin production soon after the release of the first film's success, to cover the remaining second half of the novel that the previous film left out. Production was delayed for 6 years though due to Michael Ende suing Warner Bros. over his hatred of the first film and the way it turned out. Ende felt that this adaptation's content deviated so far from the spirit of his book that he requested that production either be halted or the film's title be changed. When the producers did neither, he sued them and subsequently lost the case. Ende called the film a "gigantic melodrama of kitsch, commerce, plush and plastic".
Just as the original NeverEnding Story covered the first half of the actual book, this movie covered most of the second half. The book differs from the movie in many ways. For instance, in the book, Bastian's father never reads the NeverEnding Story, and Bastian "reads" the entire book in one sitting.
"Bastian's Father: [reading that Bastian has mounted and attempted to direct Artax] My son on a horse? He can't ride a horse!"
"Koreander: [spotting Bastian with the book] Put it back! [Bastian jumps and ends up slamming the book shut] Koreander: That book asks too much of you. Bastian Bux: But it's "The NeverEnding Story." I've already read it. Koreander: Ahh, but have you ever read a book twice? Books change each time you read them."
