The Neverending Story The Gift of the Name DVD 2001

In Good condition, a promo from the Daily Mail. The DVD comes in a cardboard cover that has minor wear but the disc is fine.


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REGION 2 Europe DVD
Colour: PAL
Run Time: 90 minutes approx
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Rating: PG

Tales from the Neverending Story is a one season-only TV series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story. It was aired as 4 television movies in the US.

Departing from the canon of the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, the overall story in the series explored the origin story of how Bastian discovers Fantasia from an even greater point of divergence from Michael Ende's novel than the 1984 and 1990 Warner Brothers films had previously depicted.

Events from the novel occur out of order, and specific plot points are reversed between characters. For example; in the novel, and films it is Bastian who enters the world of Fantasia, but here it is Atreyu who enters our world. The concept of Yin and yang is introduced by altering the nature of the Childlike Empress's relationship with Xayide. In the series they are sisters with opposing ideologies. The Old Man of Wandering Mountain also takes on a larger role in the series becoming a mentor of sorts to Atreyu in much the same way as Carl Conrad Coreander is for Bastian.

The series also introduces new supporting characters. Lucas and Marely are Bastian's friends who try to defend him from school bullies, and Fly Girl is a heroine whom Atreyu meets who is on her own Quest. "Tales from The Neverending Story" is the first live action adaption not to feature the characters of Nighthob, TeenyWeeny, or Rockbiter.

The Gift of the Name is the second film of the series.

The quest to save Fantasia continues. Join our heroes as they cross worlds to battle the fearsome Nothing using their courage, wits and the power of imagination.

Mark Rendall as Bastian Balthazar Bux

Greg Kramer as Rip Rowdy

Noël Burton as Michael Bux

Emma Campbell as April

John Dunn-Hill as Coreander

Sally Taylor-Isherwood as Yonie

Audrey Gardiner as Childlike Empress

Tyler Hynes as Atreyu

Victoria Sanchez as Xayide

Johnny Griffin as Connor

Jane Wheeler as Laura Bux