While some might worry about tampering with a beloved childhood favorite, everything I have seen so far from this project has been spot-on in capturing the tone and imagination of Sendak's book. And judging by its hilarious poster, fantastic trailer, funny viral videos, and Spike Jonze's random-musings blog, it looks like Warner Bros. is convinced the film is something special. I, too, think it has all the makings of a big hit. Unless, of course, the wild things prove to be too scary for youngsters. (They are a little freaky, huh?)
Is anyone else uber-excited about anything and everything to do with Where the Wild Things Are? Will you also be pre-ordering Dave Eggers' book? After his astonishing Sudanese refugee story What is the What, that man has earned my undying devotion.
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This is fabulous news. I am so incredibly excited for this movie. One of my favorite books as a kid, this movie looks amazing. 300 pages? Awesome.
I love Dave Eggers, so 300 pages of anything he’s written is good for me.
Sorry, this whole project is ridiculous. The beauty and genius of WTWTA is in its brevity. It is a perfect thing in its original form. To make a full-length feature out of it is insane, and to adapt it into a 300-page novelization strikes me as downright vandalism. If there is anything in movie or novel which isn’t in the picture book, it’s not WTWTA. Some things should really, really just be left as is.
I freaked when I saw the trailer on the big screen. I LOVED this book as a kid, and I can’t wait to see it as a film. And I trust Dave Eggers, so the book sounds good to me.
“Hear, hear” on What is the What; it breaks my heart just to *think* of that book, let alone read it. Magnificent story, powerfully told– I’m willing to try anything Eggers writes, based on that alone.