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Spike Jonze and where his Wild Things are right now
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
If you follow movies in development and are keen to fantasy or the works of Spike Jonze then undoubtedly you have been watching for any news about the director’s next film, a live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s legendary childrens book Where the Wild Things Are. Warner Bros. had given Jonze $80 million dollars to bring Sendak’s imaginative story of a young boy’s friendship with large, furry monsters to life and had eyed a release date of October 2008. And then the reports of trouble started to trickle in: that Warner execs had not liked the early material that Jonze filmed, that they had trouble making the wild things look perfect on-screen and that the business side of the studio didn’t know how to shape the marketing of the film. Was this supposed to be a kids film by the guy that made Being John Malkovich? Continue reading…
Posted at 2:22PM by Patrick
