Jan 9 2006Where the Wild Things Are is so on
Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Where the Wild Things Are after Universal dropped the ball. The film will get started later this year, with Spike Jonze set to direct from a script he and Dave Eggers wrote. Details of the story are still a secret, but the film will be live-action with a large expected CGI budget. Not that it matters, because with Spike Jonze directing something he wrote with Dave Eggers, you can be guaranteed that socks will be sufficiently rocked off. I don't think they let you pre-order movie tickets two years in advance, but I'd gladly throw down my $10 now.
If you've never read anything by Dave Eggers, pick up A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and thank me later. And if you've never seen anything by Spike Jonze, find the nearest kitchen knife and cut out your own kidneys.
'Wild' ride for Warner [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. Monkey - January 9, 2006 4:24 PM
Giving this project to Jonze is a smart move. I'm impressed that the studio didn't see this as another Jim Carey or Mike Myers vehicle/children's book bastardization.
2. mercatur - January 9, 2006 4:35 PM
I can't wait to see this...I have had a long running, embarassing crush on Mr Eggers. If he wrote a story about a day in the life of Paris Hilton's eyelash curler I'd pay to see it. *sigh*
3. Jenny - January 10, 2006 2:34 AM
Sorry to bring this up, but in two years your movie ticket will probably cost you like thirty bucks.
4. Patty Campbell - December 14, 2007 7:28 PM
After you all get through salivating over Eggers and Jonze, go to the library and actually READ Where the Wild Things Are--the most perfect picture book ever published. Better yet, take it home and read it to a child. When you come to the last page, I guarantee that the kid will draw a deep breath and then demand for you to "Read it again!" If the movie is a smash hit, Eggers and Jonze will only be riding on the shoulders of the great Maurice Sendak.
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