News about Wolfgang Petersen

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ROBIN SCHFER: Netflix's latest iteration of Erich Remarque's famous 1929 novel (inset) is a ruthless documentary of war in which director Edward Berger weaves together the events of the First World War from the perspective of young German soldier Paul Bäumer (left, portrayed by Felix Kammerer) and shows that there is nothing heroic about war. There's a war, and Berger portrays it in a brutal manner. The teenage recruits trapped in the inhuman, bone grinding machine of industrialized war are almost palpable. Military killings with rifles, bayonets, spades, propane, and torchthrowers is depicted head-on, but without voyeuristic amplification, the brutality of military suicide with rifles, bayonets, spades, gas, and flamethrowers is portrayed head on. In terms of banality, the violence is clear, concise, wasteless, and monstrously specific. Berger's film gives a unique human view of war's insanity, and it does so by largely dismissing melodrama. It's a physical punch in the guts, raw, sensual, and agressive. Human drama at its most basic level. And though it is only loosely based on Remarque's book, the message of the nearly two-and-a-half hour film remains the same and concise at all times: war only produces losers.

With fans flocking to HBO's House of the Dragon and Amazon's Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, studios, and streaming services are looking for the next big fantasy adaptation... but not necessarily The NeverEnding Story. Michael Ende's NeverEnding Storybook was first published in German in 1979, a year before Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 film directed in 1984. A number of studios and streamers are now vying for the rights to the project, with Deadline revealing that there are already multi-million dollar bids on the table.

Wolfgang Petersen, a German filmmaker, has died, according to his production firm. He was 81 years old. According to Maria Antoinette, Petersen died peacefully after fighting pancreatic cancer at his Brentwood, CA home last Friday and was in the arms of his wife of 50 years.