Trailers: “Where the Wild Things Are”

It’s difficult to keep one’s expectations tamped down about the movie Where the Wild Things Are.

There was this wonderful feature in the NY Times Sunday magazine a few weeks back.

Then this article in the LA Times yesterday with great nuggets like this:

Jonze enlisted big-deal literary sensation Dave Eggers to co-write the screenplay but continued to solicit Sendak’s input. Because of his health, though, the 81-year-old author was unable to travel to Los Angeles to give his OK to the movie’s monsters, plotting and overall production design. Undeterred, Jonze sent Sendak reams of drawings and photos of the work in progress. And from 2004 to 2006 he took every opportunity to travel back to Connecticut to meet with Sendak in his studio, an old converted barn.

“That’s where we got all the tweaks on the characters,” Jonze remembered. He added, while laughing: “He was like, ‘The muzzle is too long on the bull’ or ‘The feathers on the rooster could be much more flamboyant!’”

But if you get a chance, go here and check out the trailers for the movie. In particular, there are several TV spots (6 of them). If you watch all of them, culminating in the last one called “Hideaway” [see below], it’s hard not to get absolutely pumped about the film.

It debuts October 16th. Fingers crossed it’s as great as it looks.

And for more on the screenplay’s co-writer Dave Eggers, go here and here.

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