‘The Neverending Story’ set for new film series adaptation

One of my fave films from my childhood is The Neverending Story, the fantastic fantastical adventure with that iconic title track from Limahl (See below) that still plays on my smart speaker routinely to this very day. Well, the novel on which that film was based by German writer Michael Ende, first was published in 1979, is getting a new series of films from production house See-Saw Films (the makers of Slow Horses), so reports Variety.

The book was first translated into English in 1983. The film, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, was released a year later with two sequels following in the years that followed; The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990), and The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia in 1994.

The story from the source novel is as follows:

When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he’s swept into the magical world of Fantastica–so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica?

No timeline on when this is set to roll into production

More at Variety at the end of the link.