Hot on the heels of the recently released second teaser poster… (see above and a large sized rendering after the jump) – ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ director Spike Jonze is blogging about all things wild (and influential) on his blog… ‘We Love You So’.
Do check it out!
Wow! We’ve been following the happenings with Where The Wild Things Are for ages here on Dogmatic. I’m away on holidays for a week and a ton of new news has hit including the poster (which you can see above and in higher res after the jump) and… THE TRAILER!!!
So here’s a slab of Wild Things goodness and don’t forget to check out the Flickr group as well.
Here’s a lo-res version of the trailer, but make sure you head on over to Apple to see it in all its glorious HD qualities!
Do you want to get a sneak peek at the monsters of Spike Jonze�s Where The Wild Things Are? The skateboard company that Jonze co-founded, Girl Skateboards Company, will be releasing a limited series of skateboards featuring the monsters from the film adaptation.
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Ain’t It Cool has scored a fab interview with Where The Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze. Most of the news that has been seeping to the internet hasn’t been favorable about what seemed to be a problematic shoot. But now, comprehensively, for the first time – we get to hear from Jonze himself as well as feast the ole eyes on some new photos.
Ok so without further adieu, here is the interview and the pics are right after the jump.
MTV has a very nice new image from Where The Wild Things Are, which you can see here. We’re not going to get to see the film, which is said to be doing some re-shoots round about now, for a very long time yet, so enjoy every scrap of material you can get.
Even though there have been numerous rumours about the film not being the terrific piece of work that you’d expect from Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, this remains one of our most anticipated upcoming projects. Spike Jonze doesn’t do dull.
Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s book Where The Wild Things Are may be a beloved classic, but with just 338 words and an unruly kid who hangs with a group of gloomy, hard-partying monsters at its center, it doesn’t sound like old-fashioned family fun. No wonder, then, Warner Bros. is concerned that its $75 million film adaptation might not become the blockbuster it needs. The movie – which has been in development at various stages since 1992 – will miss its original release date this October 2008, and now director Spike Jonze, who is best known for offbeat, grown-up fare such as being John Malkovich, is about to begin a round of reshoots. In addition, sources inside the studio and around Hollywood tell EW the production is “deeply troubled.”
The problems began at the end of last year, when Jonze showed early versions to Warner execs. According to sources, they told him that his take was too dark for it target audience. Wild Things producer John Carls insists “there is nothing inappropriate for a child,” but bloggers fueled the bad buzz with reports that youngsters cried during a public research screening last December. All of that prompted Warner to request significant changes to the script (penned by Jonze and author Dave Eggers) from Alvin and The Chipmunks screenwriter Jon Vitti. Carls says that the script’s tone will not change; rather, he explains,” we’re inserting new moments that will make the individual Wild Things’ story lines more clear.” Warner, meanwhile, issued this statement: “We have always believed in and continue to support this film. As with all films, post-production is an evolving process, and Spike Jonze will be shooting some additional scenes.”
Since he doesn’t have authority over the final cut, fans are encouraging Jonze to leak his version online if the studio ends up removing him from the film. Carls says that won’t happen, and adds that Sendak himself is “very pleased with what Spike has accomplished thus far.” Considering that Warner is still smarting from the abysmal debut of its kid-targeted Speed Racer adaptation, perhaps its execs should hope that the master of children’s storytelling is right.
(Source: Entertainment Weekly)
Seeing as we’re currently in the midst of a bit of a Where The Wild Things Are bent of late… I thought this installment of our Wallpaper’s section could feature said Wild Things! Well, one of ‘em at least. This is a photo I took of my McFarlane Toys Wild Things posed in front of a page from the book.
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An ‘insider’ reports: “I wish I could be more specific, but because of how I saw it, I can’t offer any sort of real review. I can tell you that there’s something odd about the clip above. The Wild Thing in that clip is Carrol, played in the version I saw by James Gandolfini. That is most definitely NOT Gandolfini’s voice in that clip though. But it’s a very finished piece of film, because in the rough footage, none of the Wild Things have articulated faces. The costumes were all built to have immobile features that would be replaced in post-production by CGI, and it looks like this clip has had that work done on it…”
“…that was a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work. The clip doesn’t look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype, and the boy is a friend of ours Griffin who we had used in a Yeah Yeah Yeahs video we shot a few weeks before. We love him, but he is not in the actually film. Oh and that is not a wolf suit, its a lamb suit we bought on the internet. Talk to you later.”
The film has been pushed back until 2009. Word in the hills is that Warner Bros is extremely unhappy with the finished product. Test screening audiences have complained that the film is too adult and even too scary for children. One audience member wrote:
“I don’t think it’s for young children. They’d probably like the video version from ‘The Children’s Circle’ better.”
Another test screener writes:
“And some kids at my screening began to cry and asked their parents to leave, so that should give you an idea.” “The things are not cute. Max comes off a bit weird and off-putting ‘He slaps his mom!’ and he seems confused and not charming at all.” “No rumpus, no big set pieces, no ’state-of-the-art’ lucrative sequences just some running around on some desert place and thats that.”
According to Spike Jonze’s younger brother, music producer Sam Spiegel, who confirmed it in an e-mail to music blog The Playlist, banshee-voiced Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O is writing “pretty much the whole” soundtrack to Jonze’s forthcoming film version of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.
With a gigantic budget of a speculated $80 million, the fiercely protective Maurice Sendak is enthused about the movie adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers.
‘Where The Wild Things Are’ will feature the voices of James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker, Paul Dano, Catherine O’ Hara and Lauren Ambrose who recently replaced Michelle Williams.
Audience reviews from surprisingly early test screenings described the $80 million film as unapologetically melancholic, beautifully strange, and very ‘adult’.
Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is my favorite book of all time. So much so, my next tattoo will be one based on the book… I just haven’t decided the what and where for right now. But I digress. As has been reported in this blog before, there is a movie in the works – and the image above, is the first that has made its way onto the internet! Although the photo doesn’t reveal too much – the character of Max looks friggn amazing!
via Wikipedia
Where the Wild Things Are is a film adaptation of a Maurice Sendak picture book of the same name. The film will be directed by Spike Jonze and written by Dave Eggers. It was originally set for release from Universal, and a teaser of the film was attached to How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a vehicle from the same studio. However, disagreements with Jonze led him to take the film to Warner Bros. The movie is expected to combine live action and CGI.
The film’s target release date is October 3, 2008. Filming began in April of 2006 at Central City Studios in Melbourne, Australia. Some location filming happened in the Queensland rain forest early in 2007.
(Central City Studios which is owned by my employers! Holy fuck I gotta get a tour of the place!)
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