Video: Where the Wild Things Are Trailer

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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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on March 25, 2009 4:51 PM

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spiritross

Hey Gothamist

Yonkers is the 6th Borough

Get it right.

citylion

So, who did do the song on this trailer? I actually dig it.

Commence hateathon.

Funcrusherplus

Arcade Fire "Wake Up"

Rfive

This looks really boring. The animals look lifted straight from the pages of the book and look uninspired. Avoid.

Funcrusherplus

Spike Jonez should have put slim big breasted ladies in bikinis instead of monsters.

EricRoberts

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.

babyhitler

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.

Funcrusherplus

I read that the monsters are actually reflections of Maurice Sendak's aunts and uncles.

duckumu

it does?

Dead Himmler

It does.

jonathan

does not.

MT

I for one and SO FRIGGIN' EXCITED! I LOVE that book!

Dirk

I love Catherine Keenar.

After seeing this trailer, I'm definitely interested in seeing this movie.

Jen Chung

The trailer seems more targeted to adults who have grown up on the books, versus the kids themselves. Still, I'm intrigued.

pipsy

Couldn't just one or two of the most beloved books of all time stay books?

Radtard

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