So… have you heard that Spike Jonze is making a film out of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE?

If you forgot, you’re not to blame. The film was originally announced a few years ago, and then set for an October ’08 release, and then… well… that didn’t happen. And it didn’t happen for a variety of reasons, which all basically boil down to “it wasn’t ready.”

By Moriarty at Aintitcool.com

I saw the film a while back. I saw it with the request that I not review it at that point, and that was fine. I was curious as could be about it, and what I saw was a fascinating rough draft, a bold and striking reflection of the book, more like an articulation of it. It was completely unlike any other adaptation of this sort of material, something akin to THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T in the way it seemed unafraid to freak you out. It was nowhere near done, though. And the Wild Things themselves were completely unrendered in the film I saw, meaning entire characters had yet to be truly defined.

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