EW.com has posted The NeverEnding Story An Oral History: How Three Brave Kids Helped Save The World By Using Their Imaginations, which features Wolfgang Peterson, Noah Hathaway, Tami Stroncach, Allan Oppenheimer, and Limahl talking about making the movie. If you're a fan of the movie, it's definitely worth a read.
Some interesting things I didn't know:
Wolfgang Peterson was the second director, the first one left because he was used to smaller movies and couldn't handle to scale of the movie.
Allan Oppenheimer voiced Gmork and The Rockbiter along with Falcor and the narrator, I had thought he was just Falcor and the narrator.
Despite what the urban legends say, no horses died while filming the scene in the swamp. I had never realized people actual thought that.
Wolfgang Peterson and Steven Spielberg were friends, and after seeing an early cut Spielberg gave Peterson some advice on how to edit it to fit American expectations better. As a thank you Peterson gave him the Auryn.
Peterson actually tried to work on the script with the original book's author, Micheal Ende, but Ende didn't really understand movies and was difficult to work with. Ende was so upset about the final script, which Peterson wrote with Herman Weigel, that he tried to sue them over it.
Some interesting things I didn't know:
Wolfgang Peterson was the second director, the first one left because he was used to smaller movies and couldn't handle to scale of the movie.
Allan Oppenheimer voiced Gmork and The Rockbiter along with Falcor and the narrator, I had thought he was just Falcor and the narrator.
Despite what the urban legends say, no horses died while filming the scene in the swamp. I had never realized people actual thought that.
Wolfgang Peterson and Steven Spielberg were friends, and after seeing an early cut Spielberg gave Peterson some advice on how to edit it to fit American expectations better. As a thank you Peterson gave him the Auryn.
Peterson actually tried to work on the script with the original book's author, Micheal Ende, but Ende didn't really understand movies and was difficult to work with. Ende was so upset about the final script, which Peterson wrote with Herman Weigel, that he tried to sue them over it.
