There's some more news about Spike Jones' upcoming adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. The Vulture blog reviewed the script HERE.
An aside-I really don't care about script reviews. In the scheme of internet reporting, script reviews are the most useless articles you can find. A film script is just a piece of the finished product. Lousy scripts can become good movies with the right director and vice versa. This makes reviewing a script asinine since it usually won't speak to the finished product. Plus, most of the dorks reviewing scripts have no idea how to properly read and interpret a script. If they could they would be Hollywood producers and not online critics. Seems to me all a script review does is ruin every major plot point for a film a year before you see it. Why would any movie fan want to do that? It's a sick, sick world out there.
Anyway.
The only reason I'm even posting about this is because of another bit of news from the same blog led me to a greater discovery. Screenwriter Dave Eggers is also rewriting Maurice Sendak's book as a novel. The novel, reportedly targeted toward adults, will be released next fall to coincide with the film's opening. This is the coolest cross platform marketing since Creepshow.
As I've said before, if it were anyone else writing and directing this thing I would be bracing myself for the kind of cynical childrens "entertainment" that usually involves Mike Myers voicing an ogre or dressed as a feline nightmare. And quite frankly, it's not like Sendak's work has translated well into other mediums. His television cartoons are benign at best (Little Bear) and downright annoying at worst( Seven Little Monsters). But if anyone can take the virtually unadaptable Wild Things and turn it into a movie it's the guy who made the book The Orchid Thief a postmodern masterpiece. As for Eggers, he's mastered both ironic deconstruction and heartfelt drama himself, so I can't wait to see what he has in store for us.
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