Tales from the Neverending Story

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Tales from the Neverending Story
Tales from the Neverending Story Vol. 1 DVD cover
Genre	Fantasy
Running time
Starring	Mark Rendall Tyler Hynes
Country of origin	USA
Original channel	HBO
Original run	October 1, 2001–January 1, 2002
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TV.com summary

Tales from the Neverending Story is a television mini-series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story, produced and distributed by Muse Entertainment, and aired on HBO in 2001. The mini-series was aired as 4 episodes in the US and 13 episodes in the UK. The series was released on DVD in 2001. The miniseries was a re-imagining or "reboot" of the Neverending Story series with the overall story being even more divergent from Michael Ende's novel than the motion pictures had been.

1 Cast
2 Episodes
- 2.1 UK version
3 Differences from the book and movies
4 External link

[edit] Cast

Mark Rendall - Bastian Balthazar Bux
Tyler Hynes - Atreyu
Victora Sanchez - Xayide
John Dunn-Hill - Mr. Coreander
Edward Yankie - Mr. Blank/Gmork
Stéfanie Buxton - Fly Girl
Noël Burton - Michael Bux (Bastian's Father)
Audrey Gardiner - Childlike Empress
Johnny Griffin - Connor
Brittany Drisdelle - Fallon
Stefano Faustini - Lucas
Valérie Chiniara - Marley
Sally Taylor-Isherwood - Yonie
Tyrone Benskin - Cairon
Jane Wheeler - Laura Bux (Bastian's Mother)
Lisa Bronwyn Moore - Miss Finnegan
Greg Kramer - Rip Rowdy
Emma Taylor-Isherwood - Olano
Emma Campbell - April
Robert Crooks - Tartus
Robert Jadah - Morla the Turtle
Amanda Jane Tilson - Little Girl, Nanda

[edit] Episodes

The DVD boxed set cover, featuring the re-designed Auryn.

[edit] UK version

1. Heart of Stone

2. The Nothing

3. The Luckdragon

4. Deleting Mr. Blank

5. The Gift of the Name

6. Home Sweet Home

7. The Sceptre

8. The Luck Stops Here

9. Badge of Courage

10. Deus Ex Machina

11. Stairway to Heaven

12. The Visitor

13. Resurrection

[edit] Differences from the book and movies

Xayide is set up from the beginning to be the Childlike Empress' sister, making them equals in terms of power. This enables her to become a formidable foe to Bastian, Atreyu and all Fantasians, and one of her main goals is to manipulate the real world into forgetting Fantasia.
In the first half of the series, Atreyu's adventures in Fantasia run concurrently with Bastian's adventures in the real world as both sides fight Xayide in their own ways. This is unlike the book or the first movie where Bastian reads about Atreyu's adventures passively before he is brought into Fantasia himself.