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number8
12-12-2007, 06:42 PM
http://www.cinemablend.com/images/reviews/1572/_11974077361152.jpg

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/reviews/1572/_11974077366335.jpg

Sweet.

Sycophant
12-12-2007, 06:45 PM
Sweet.Word. I'm very much looking forward to this one.

Philosophe_rouge
12-12-2007, 06:49 PM
One of my childhood favourites, these teaser photos have me excited:pritch:

Watashi
12-12-2007, 06:51 PM
I have to predict that this film will be very short. It wasn't the most detailed of books. Yet, again.. they stretched The Polar Express into a full-length feature film...

number8
12-12-2007, 07:00 PM
If Charlie Kaufman had a go at it, it'd probably have a subplot involving a confused illustrator trying to get custody of his son from his estranged wife, whose illustrations affect his son's dreams.

Ezee E
12-12-2007, 07:59 PM
That first shot looks like 2001.

bac0n
12-13-2007, 06:00 PM
I can't wait to take my daughter to this. Where The Wild Things Are is one of her favorite bedtime stories.

MadMan
12-13-2007, 10:05 PM
I eagerly await this movie. I will be seeing it in theaters.

Wryan
12-13-2007, 10:33 PM
Of course it will look good, and probably be really fucked up.

I wonder how it'll all play out in the end.

/eager

Qrazy
12-18-2007, 07:04 AM
That first shot looks like 2001.

Because there's a sunrise and a flare at the bottom of the screen? :confused:

KK2.0
02-18-2008, 12:53 AM
AICN has a supposed leaked clip

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35655

unfinished fx or maybe just a screen test, hard to make something out of it.

Sven
02-18-2008, 04:32 AM
That clip is wonderful. I'm now very much anticipating the picture.

Henry Gale
02-18-2008, 05:43 AM
The clip has such a unique and amazing atmosphere to it. I watched it like three times in a row. It's a shame that it's having such a hard time getting finished properly, I really want to see it.

Does anyone know how much of it they may be reshooting?

Sycophant
02-18-2008, 07:55 AM
I want this movie very, very badly.

number8
02-18-2008, 08:42 AM
That clip was either fake or just an early screen/CG test. The kid actor in it is not the one in Jonze's movie.

Boner M
02-18-2008, 01:10 PM
If that's just a screen test, then I can't wait to see what the final product will be. I thought the clip was fantastic.

Kurious Jorge v3.1
02-18-2008, 02:47 PM
very excited about this, I had all the little stuffed animals of this back in the day!

number8
02-20-2008, 04:03 AM
I was right:


"That was a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work. The clip doesn't look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype, and the boy is a friend of ours Griffin who we had used in a Yeah Yeah Yeahs video we shot a few weeks before. We love him, but he is not in the actually film...Oh and that is not a wolf suit, its a lamb suit we bought on the internet. Talk to you later..."

Boner M
02-20-2008, 11:59 PM
WTF, this is being completely reshot?! (http://chud.com/articles/articles/13720/1/WHERE-THE-WILD-THINGS-ARE-BEING-COMPLETELY-RESHOT/Page1.html)


If the entire film gets reshot you will hear that the decision came because of technical issues, specifically the animation of the Wild Things' mouths and facial features. The film uses people in huge Jim Henson Creature Shop suits, and the plan was to shoot the suits and animate the Wild Things' faces later. That has been proving to be more technically difficult than anyone had foreseen, even though test footage had been shot (a leaked clip from the movie that hit the internet this weekend was in fact some of that test footage, according to a statement from Spike Jonze). This is a bad situation, obviously, but one where some footage could be salvaged, meaning that a complete and total reshoot of the film wouldn't be necessary.

Yet I'm hearing that just such a massive reshoot is what is on the table right now. And it's not because of technical issues, unless you want to consider the lead kid actor and the script technical issues. Sources tell me that the suits at Legendary and Warner Bros are not happy with Max Records, the actor playing Max, the mischievous boy who is crowned King of the Wild Things. Worse than that, they don't like the film's tone and want to go back to the script drawing board, possibly losing the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers script when they do it. Apparently the film is too weird and 'too scary,' and the character of Max is being seen as not likable.

:eek: :sad:

Kurosawa Fan
02-21-2008, 12:03 AM
Somehow I had a feeling this film would get fucked with by the studio.

megladon8
02-21-2008, 12:05 AM
That's lame.

I actually never read the story this was based on, as a kid.

Sycophant
02-21-2008, 12:06 AM
WTF, this is being completely reshot?! (http://chud.com/articles/articles/13720/1/WHERE-THE-WILD-THINGS-ARE-BEING-COMPLETELY-RESHOT/Page1.html)

:eek: :sad:
Oh, bloody hell. I may have been looking forward to this more than any other film I'm aware of in production.

Sven
02-21-2008, 12:06 AM
WTF, this is being completely reshot :eek: :sad:

This is looking to go down as another one of those notorious "lost" pictures, a la Terry Gilliam. Even if it does come out eventually, peeps be bemoanin'.

This is particularly sad given how much I loved that leaked clip.

Qrazy
02-21-2008, 12:27 AM
Oh noes it's too scary!!! Fuck you Hollywood.

D_Davis
02-21-2008, 01:04 AM
I wish the writer's strike would never end.

number8
02-21-2008, 02:06 AM
Damn. Ever since I heard the test screening reactions, this has been my worst fear.

No. Scratch that. My worst fear was that they would butcher the film beyond recognizability. A complete reshoot? That I didn't even think about.

Wryan
02-21-2008, 02:16 AM
ARGH!!!!!!!!

D_Davis
02-21-2008, 02:25 AM
Maybe this will be like the last Exorcist film, and we'll get both versions...eventually?

Henry Gale
02-21-2008, 02:47 AM
Maybe this will be like the last Exorcist film, and we'll get both versions...eventually?

God I hope so. We haven't had a Spike Jonze film since 2002 now, and it looks like this won't even be the one that stops that from being true. It seems like at this point they wouldn't be against the idea of just bringing in another director.

The only thing I know that he's done really recently (aside from fighting for this I would guess) was Kanye's Flashing Lights video which came out last week. But since Adaptations it's just been other music videos and appearances in Jackass movies. Man... I wish all of this had worked out better so that we could have just seen more from him at a comfortable rate over the last little while.

ledfloyd
02-21-2008, 03:04 AM
gah, rewriting a jonze and eggers script? lame. i really want something new from spike, adaptation is one of my all time favs.

the flashing lights video is good, but not as good as the youtube comments.


the video does not make any since to the song lol

:lol:

Henry Gale
02-21-2008, 03:25 AM
the flashing lights video is good, but not as good as the youtube comments.

ppl get stuff lolz.

But yeah, the overall reaction to it has been more amusing than the video itself to me.

MadMan
02-21-2008, 04:59 AM
Goddamnit. Stop fucking with people's visions you bloody Hollywood suit wanker assholes!

Lazlo
02-21-2008, 05:08 AM
I don't know how you get this far into making a movie without the studio having some idea of what you're doing and the direction you're going. So, Warners, you mean to tell me you didn't have any idea that a movie of Where the Wild Things Are by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers was going to be a bit dark and subversive? Bullshit.