Book properties, comic book properties… there’s a a fair few that mean a lot to me and I don’t want to see fucked up by being made into shitty films. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is really … really high.. on that list if not at the top. I think Spike Jonze might just be the perfect person to direct the film, and I have a lot of faith the guy will do it justice. So Jonze is coupled with ‘Dave Eggerss’ to write the script, and apparently it’s really good.

The NYmag has this to say:

“In transforming the 338-word story of Where the Wild Things Are into a 111-page screenplay, Eggers and Jonze have fleshed out the story not, unexpectedly, with wild plot developments, and not, thankfully, with densely packed pop-fiction references. Instead Where the Wild Things Are is filled with richly imagined psychological detail, and the screenplay for this live-action film simply becomes a longer and more moving version of what Maurice Sendak’s book has always been at heart: a book about a lonely boy leaving the emotional terrain of boyhood behind.”

So with Jonze at the helm, what is supposedly a great script, and voice talent from people like Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener and James Gandolfino they’re certainly setting it up right.

I’m trying to not get too pumped-up as it’s not released until this time next year… but sometimes I just can’t help myself.

You can read the full review over at Vulture here

I saw it over at bigscreenlittlescreen