They got it right the first time

They're remaking The NeverEnding Story.

Ugh.

The Kennedy/Marshall Co., whose credits include "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," and Leonard DiCaprio's Appian Way are in discussions with Warners about reviving the 25-year-old franchise. The studio recently acquired rights to the property, clearing the way for a potential remake.

Based on a German-language novel by Michael Ende, the film centers on a boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux who discovers a parallel world in a book titled "The NeverEnding Story." As the boy, a loner, delves deeper into the book, he increasingly finds his life intertwined with the plot of the novel, in which a hero in the land of Fantasia must save the universe on behalf of an empress.

The new movie will put a modern spin on the material by examining the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first feature.

I know I should wait and see, but... ugh. Why can't they remake something that didn't quite work the first time? I still think they should go back and remake Titanic, this time with a script.

On second thought, there was much of Michael Ende's wonderful novel that didn't make it into the '84 version, so perhaps a second go-around could get more of that back.

And a remake could very well get the longer international cut released on these shores, which I have always wanted to track down.