Wednesday wednesday wednesday!

[Raev]

[punk_princess]

just how sexy are those bartenders?

[tanuki1985]

And just how much fun are those three levels of fun?

[Raev]

Sexy enough to make me smile - and fun enough to keep me going back every week and post things like this when I do NOT work for the joint

[tanuki1985]

Good enough.

[TheOsakaKoneko]

So...is there absinthe?

[Rev.Reverence]

So...is there absinthe?

PROBABLY NOT! TEASING BASTARDS......well it won't keep me from going eventually...

[TheOsakaKoneko]

PROBABLY NOT! TEASING BASTARDS......well it won't keep me from going eventually...

Worst case of false advertising since the Never Ending Story...

[Rev.Reverence]

Worst case of false advertising since the Never Ending Story...

I get what your gettin' at... but to my knowledge they never wanted to stop...THEY MADE THEM STOP!!

Main article: The NeverEnding Story (film)

The NeverEnding Story was the first film adaptation of the novel. It was released in 1984, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Barret Oliver as Bastian, Noah Hathaway as Atreyu, and Tami Stronach as the Childlike Empress. The music was composed by Klaus Doldinger. It covered only the first half of the book, ending at the point where Bastian enters Fantastica. Ende requested they halt production or change the movie's name, as it had drastically deviated from his novel; when they did neither, he sued them and subsequently lost the case.[1]

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, directed by George T. Miller and starring Jonathan Brandis, was released in 1990. It used a number of plot elements from the second half of Ende's novel, but told an essentially new tale.

The NeverEnding Story III, starring Jason James Richter, Melody Kay and Jack Black, was released in 1994. This film was based only upon the characters from the Ende book, having a completely new story.

The Neverending Story has also inspired two television series. The 1996 animated series focuses on Bastian's further adventures in Fantastica, largely different from his further adventures in the book, but occasionally containing elements of them. The live-action Tales from the Neverending Story re-told the whole story as an ongoing series lasting 13 episodes.

The Neverending Story has also been adapted to the dramatic play, ballet, and operatic media in Germany. The scores to both the opera and the ballet versions were composed by Siegfried Matthus.

In 2001, the video game adaptation Auryn Quest was developed by the German studio Attaction.[2]