I was glad to find that they didn't go with a known child actor to play Max, though now that I think about it, I'm not even really sure why I'm glad-maybe because most known child actors are too old for the role, anyway. It sounds like they've gone to enormous effort to be true to the source material, and to find the right actors for the right parts.
Jonze is an excellent director, but Eggers has no experience writing screenplays, and besides, I often find his writing a bit too self-involved.Ĭonsequently, I was really glad to read a new interview with Jonze by Moriarty on Ain't It Cool News. The last I'd heard about it was that Spike Jonze was going to direct it, which worked in its favor, and that Dave Eggers was going to collaborate with Jonze on the screenplay, which could've gone either way, to my mind.
#Let the wild rumpus movie#
My feelings were not dissuaded by the fact that the movie was first announced several years ago, and was originally supposed to come out last month, but got delayed and is now scheduled for next October. It's one of my, my wife's, and my kids' favorite books, so I figured the chances were low that the movie was going to live up to our standards. So I hadn't had a lot of hope for the movie version of the classic kids' book Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. I'm thinking particularly of the versions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat, both of which I found utterly unwatchable (and, honestly, those are the only ones that leap to mind at the moment). Live-action movie versions of kids' picture books are rarely very good.
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