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Inside all of us is a Wild Thing…

Posted by hil

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(photo via Spike Jonze Fan Blog)

The trailer of the long awaited Spike Jonze adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are has just be released on Apple (interesting choice!).  The movie will be in theatres from 16 October 2009. It’s funny how recognizably Australian the forest and beach are in the opening sequence! I can’t tell yet if I’ll love this, but it is looking promising. For me it will probably depend on how much sentimentality has been allowed to creep in: I’m hoping for very little.

Previously:

Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are: Link Dump

Where the Wild Things Are!

Posted by hil

Here are some first glimpses of the Wild Things from Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. They feature on a limited series of skateboards made by the company that Jonze co-founded, Girl Skateboards Company.  In a previous post there is a link to an article about the making of the creatures, and their filming on the Mornington Peninsular in Victoria.

(via Puppets in Melbourne, PuppetVision and /film)