Following the film's release in Germany, Ende organized a press conference where he referred to the film as "the revolting movie" and demanded that his name not appear in the credits, claiming that "The makers of the film simply did not understand the book at all. The book's author called the movie "revolting."ĭespite having worked with Petersen on the script, The Neverending Story author Michael Ende publicly bashed the finished product. Luckily for Petersen and the studio, The NeverEnding Story managed to rake in approximately $100 million worldwide. With a price tag of about $27 million, the project supplanted 1981's Oscar-nominated Das Boot-also directed by Wolfgang Petersen-as the country's priciest film.
At the time of its release, The NeverEnding Story was the most expensive movie in Germany's history.Īt the time of its release, The NeverEnding Story was the most expensive film production in the history of German cinema. But that didn't stop Wolfgang Petersen's magical adventure story from becoming a bona fide cult classic. The movie adaptation of German writer Michael Ende's 1979 fantasy novel The Neverending Story was released during that special era in the 1980s when a PG rating almost certainly meant nightmares for children under the age of 10 (see: Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal).
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