Just noticed this while persuing IMDB this morning.

Spike Jonze will be directing an animated feature film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's badass Where the Wild Things Are. Dave Eggers is doing the script, which is interesting, and it will be his first screenwriting credit (as far as I know). The cast includes Benicio Del Toro, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Dano, Forest Whitaker, and Michelle Williams.

5/27/2006 12:19:13 PM

How is this even possible? I saw the story animated on something like Reading Rainbow once. I guess Spike Jonze has nothing better to do?

5/27/2006 12:26:41 PM

Eh, you get dumped by Sofia Coppola, crazy shit is bound to happen.

Produced by Tom Hanks, btw.

5/27/2006 12:30:19 PM

I guess he has to get reacquainted with his inner child.

5/27/2006 12:40:00 PM

He does have another Charlie Kaufman collaboration in the works for 2007-ish.

5/27/2006 12:41:43 PM

ttt

6/25/2007 11:40:50 AM

I just wanted to post the picture

6/25/2007 11:41:58 AM

man, animation sure looks real nowadays

6/25/2007 11:47:25 AM

I'd get wasted and see this, truth

6/25/2007 11:48:07 AM

I'd go sober, truth.

6/25/2007 12:12:57 PM

He's not working with Kaufman on his new movie. Kaufman is directing it himself. Also, it sounds awesome.

Anyway, Where the Wild Things Are was one of my favorite books when I was kid. Drunk, sober, whatever; I'll see it.

EDIT: Wow I just noticed how old this thread is. So ignore my first comment

[Edited on June 25, 2007 at 12:29 PM. Reason : .]

6/25/2007 12:27:21 PM

ttt

3/26/2009 3:06:13 PM

"Let the wild rumpus start!"

3/26/2009 4:00:01 PM

w00t. as noted in the chit chat thread, the trailer looked great.

3/26/2009 4:06:54 PM

in other dave eggers movie news, there's this:

http://lovepuppy.tumblr.com/post/89470463/claudia

or as my gf says:

Quote :

"a movie written by dave eggers? i predict falling in love with it in the first five minutes and feeling inspired and powerful, then halfway through ill realize im actually kind of bored and if i read one more sentence of flowery, verbose language ill vom. then i wont finish it ever."

3/26/2009 4:16:17 PM

i'm so glad this is live action. it looks great.

3/26/2009 7:13:48 PM

EverMagenta

3/26/2009 11:41:22 PM

it looks like they made a movie about The Banana Splits in a forest

looks like crap

3/27/2009 8:12:27 AM

^^ apparently I posted here

and I'm posting again because this should be awesome

3/27/2009 1:15:27 PM

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dor/objects/55881/where_the_wild_things_are/videos/where_the_wild_things_are_032509.html

3/27/2009 1:55:18 PM

^^^wtf, have you no soul?

nm, prolly trolling

3/27/2009 2:28:19 PM

God damnit. I want to see this movie sooooooooooooooooooooo bad. I would pay $25 a ticket to see it right now.

3/28/2009 1:02:25 AM

this is going to be fucking horrible

3/28/2009 2:57:24 AM

OH MY GOD THEY'RE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT GIVING A MOUSE A COOKIE, I MUST MASTURBATE FURIOUSLY TO IT

seriously, this is going to be bad

saying such, it wouldn't surprise me if it's better than i think it will be but it's not going to approach anywhere near good

3/28/2009 10:54:00 AM

bigman, how did your heart turn so black

3/28/2009 10:58:55 AM

Well, you know when a star gets so massive that it collapses on itself?

3/28/2009 11:38:05 AM

i was interested in seeing this until i noticed that Karen O did the music

3/28/2009 4:58:42 PM

I really can't understand all the pessimism given the trailer, director, and source material. I mean c'moooon peeps

3/28/2009 5:40:35 PM

I really can't understand why people say "peeps"

3/28/2009 5:53:24 PM

because slang is so kewl, dawg

3/28/2009 6:19:33 PM

Quote :

"I really can't understand all the pessimism given the trailer, director, and source material. I mean c'moooon peeps"

i think it looks good, and i'll probably see it. i just hate it when Karen O's name is attached to anything

3/28/2009 6:38:05 PM

i was more interested in seeing this until when i noticed that Karen O did the music

3/28/2009 7:23:34 PM

Quote :

"Produced by Tom Hanks, btw."

He did a great job producing his last children's book

3/28/2009 8:15:34 PM

Quote :

"i was more interested in seeing this until when i noticed that Karen O did the music"

not trying to derail this thread, but Karen O is pretty terrible

3/29/2009 5:15:50 AM

Rat Soup is pretty dumb

3/29/2009 6:06:54 AM

karen o is pretty awesome/dumb.

3/29/2009 9:17:47 AM

derp another chronicles of narnia

3/29/2009 12:40:45 PM

^ what?

3/30/2009 10:43:22 AM

not sure, but im hoping hes not trying to compare narnia to where the wild things are lol

3/30/2009 11:35:25 AM

^ you got it

3/30/2009 6:04:10 PM

what the fuck does "derp" mean?

3/30/2009 6:05:51 PM

because a quickie, cgi-loaded disney adaptation by a bunch of no-names is the same as spike jonze and dave eggers working on something for years

3/30/2009 6:55:44 PM

remains to be seen, but this is my prediction, yes

hay guise, lets go and make a movie based on a popular children's book but keep it semi-edgy enough to attract young adults that think they are being cool while still making a killing on the kids and their parents, and instead of being different from all the 5810376109837519874 other fantasy movies we'll stick to CGI and green screens so it can be shot in the back of a studio warehouse for cheap. also let's never stop talking about how long we've been sitting working on this and get a bunch of big name actors to phone in the voices.

3/30/2009 7:21:03 PM

fwiw, the word is that most of this other than the facial expressions is done with muppets, not cgi, and they ended up firing a couple of the big-name actors they got and replacing them with jonze's people because the original actors weren't cutting it

3/30/2009 7:23:52 PM

it seemed to me like the chronicles of narnia movies were trying to cash in on the success of lord of the rings. i don't see any relation here. also, anyone know where the acoustic arcade fire song is from?

[Edited on March 30, 2009 at 10:12 PM. Reason : .]

3/30/2009 10:08:36 PM

Quote :

"hay guise, lets go and make a movie based on a popular children's book but keep it semi-edgy enough to attract young adults that think they are being cool while still making a killing on the kids and their parents, and instead of being different from all the 5810376109837519874 other fantasy movies we'll stick to CGI and green screens so it can be shot in the back of a studio warehouse for cheap. also let's never stop talking about how long we've been sitting working on this and get a bunch of big name actors to phone in the voices."

from the little bit I know about this project you are way off. plus did you even watch the trailer? stick to cgi?

3/30/2009 10:12:09 PM

The trailer for this is kinda awesome especially bc of Arcade Fire.

Is that version of Wake Up available anywhere else? Might have to wait for the OST.

[Edited on March 30, 2009 at 11:26 PM. Reason : .]

3/30/2009 11:21:47 PM

a link to that version of Wake Up was given in the chit chat thread. I would link it if i wasnt on the ipod touch

3/30/2009 11:30:30 PM

i watched the trailer, it looked like the characters from Chuck E Cheese's mechanical band escaped and their faces were replaced with overexpressive CGI. and the soundtrack was some emo shit

3/30/2009 11:38:51 PM

you really have no idea what you're talking about

3/30/2009 11:40:55 PM