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From Brooklyn to the big screen! Finally, the Where the Wild Things Are trailer has premiered, and October can't get here soon enough, right? Let's just hope the Spike Jonze-directed adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic '60s children's story gets the IMAX treatment.
Jonze co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Eggers, and they had much filling in to do, as the original is just ten sentences long! In 2007, NYMag got their hands on the 111-page screenplay, and declared it to be "really, really good." As for the original author, Sendak was born in Brooklyn "to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and decided to become an illustrator after viewing Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve." His original idea for the book featured horses, but he changed those to monsters upon realizing he couldn't draw a horse. For more wild things, head to the "6th borough" to check out the There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak exhibit.
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Couldn't just one or two of the most beloved books of all time stay books?
I think "The Giving Tree" is safe, but you never know. Hollywood sucks.
Don't you mean "The Taking Boy"? (perfect primer for greedy developers...)
Way back when in my day we rioted in the streets when they turned our favorite childhood book The Wizard of Oz into a DARN TALKIE.. we also wore onion on our belts.
yawn back to my nap
The trailer seems more targeted to adults who have grown up on the books, versus the kids themselves. Still, I'm intrigued.
I love Catherine Keenar.
After seeing this trailer, I'm definitely interested in seeing this movie.
I for one and SO FRIGGIN' EXCITED! I LOVE that book!
I just found out that Maurice Sendak is GAY. It puts a whole new spin on Male monsters with a young boy on a deserted island thing.
it does?
It does.
does not.
I read that the monsters are actually reflections of Maurice Sendak's aunts and uncles.
The trailer is really lame but the movie could still be great since Jonze is a genius. I hope the score is more timeless than the music in the trailer.
This looks really boring. The animals look lifted straight from the pages of the book and look uninspired. Avoid.
Spike Jonez should have put slim big breasted ladies in bikinis instead of monsters.
So, who did do the song on this trailer? I actually dig it.
Commence hateathon.
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Hey Gothamist
Yonkers is the 6th Borough
Get it right.