Dino would ride roughshod over the director and just change everything. “But when I saw what was up for grabs, I thought, ‘Well, I must pick something else.’ Because I wasn’t a fan of the way Dino Di Laurentiis and Raffaella di Laurentiis made their movies. “What actually happened was I was negotiating with Raffaella di Laurentiis to do a picture for her,” he tells SciFiNow. Fortunately for the producers, he was on the lookout for a new project. By 1984, Brian Johnson had worked on The Empire Strikes Back and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and had won an Oscar for his work on Aliens. It was going to be an epic, and the filmmakers knew that they nedded the best in effects to bring Michael Ende’s novel to life. At the time, The Neverending Story, was the most expensive film ever produced in Germany. There’s a reason why it has become one of the most beloved children’s films of all time: it’s a beautifully realised fantasy with a simple but wonderfully effective core concept and, lest we forget, some truly spectacular effects work. The Neverending Story has much more in its arsenal that darkness, however.
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