Details

Release year: 1990

Storyline

A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.

Top credits

Directors

George Miller

Writers

Cast

Jonathan Brandis — Bastian
Kenny Morrison — Atreyu
Clarissa Burt — Xayide
John Wesley Shipp — Barney

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Did you know

• The film was to begin production soon after the release of the first film's success, to cover the remaining second half of the novel that the previous film left out. Production was delayed for 6 years though due to Michael Ende suing Warner Bros. over his hatred of the first film and the way it turned out. Ende felt that this adaptation's content deviated so far from the spirit of his book that he requested that production either be halted or the film's title be changed. When the producers did neither, he sued them and subsequently lost the case. Ende called the film a "gigantic melodrama of kitsch, commerce, plush and plastic".

• Thomas Hill is the only actor to reprise his role, as Koreander the bookkeeper, from the original movie. The child actors had to be recast as they had visibly gotten older in the 6 year gap between the films, and they no longer looked the same age.

• It is not known who played the Rock Biter in the movie and the actor is not credited in the end credits and to this day the actor's identity remains a mystery.