When I was a little kid no matter what would happen during the day I would somehow manage to find time to read or look at WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak.
To me this children's book was what let me develop my imagination into what it is today, Max was able to conjure up a world of his own from his thoughts, like Max I too have done so through my personal novels and drawings and sculptures. Sendak's book to me is the key to my imagination and to this day no other book can ever better in my personal opinion.
So it gives me great grief to hear this news:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2069
Quote:
Spike Jonze Knows Where the Wild Things Are Source: Variety Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Universal has hired Spike Jonze to direct the Playtone-produced adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, the classic children's book by Maurice Sendak. Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will produce with John Carls and Sendak.
The Adaptation and Being John Malkovich director will helm the live-action film, which was originally developed as a CGI project.
Published in 1963, it's the story about a mischievous boy who is sent to bed without supper. In his room, Max uses his imagination to conjure up a forest populated by the wild things, exotic monsters who embrace Max as their ruler.
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I don't mind book to movie adaptations (as long as they turn out well ala LOTR) but this book can't be turned into a film, not without raping the book and rape it they will.
Fuck you Hollywood, stop cashing in and start trying to make good films for the sake of making good films.