Spike Jonze’ Where the Wild Things Are has been anticipated as a magical adaptation of the children’s illustrated book. But where is it? News has come out that they are pushing back its release date without any reason, and that gets a lot of people asking questions. Typically this means bad things in production.
“We’ve given him more money and, even more importantly, more time for him to work on the film,” Horn said. “We’d like to find a common ground that represents Spike’s vision but still offers a film that really delivers for a broad-based audience. We obviously still have a challenge on our hands. But I wouldn’t call it a problem, simply a challenge. No one wants to turn this into a bland, sanitized studio movie. This is a very special piece of material and we’re just trying to get it right.”
This is refreshing to hear. Usually delays have to do with unfortunate complications, poor planning or just creative differences. Sometimes these things are enough to ruin a film entirely.
But to solve these things, sacrifices get made and the film suffers for it and the finger pointing begins. But it is nice to see that the studio has enough faith in this project to say he is on the right track and they had to admit that giving him some more money and time would be sufficient to see it done right.
We are living in strange times when the studios are willing to dump more money into a project to preserve its integrity without a fight.
This sucks, I wanted to see Jonze rock this his way.
Trainwrecks like this are fun to watch.
That’s what I’ve heard, too. The studio is in spin mode. Reports like THIS: http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/13720/1/WHERE-THE-WILD-THINGS-ARE-BEING-COMPLETELY-RESHOT/Page1.html have been swirling for MONTHS now.
Links not working for me, so ignore if this was mentioned in the article.
Rumour has it that the test screenings have not gone well and that the movie is way too scary for the target audience with kids leaving crying. It doesn’t surprise me. Sure kids will take what they see on a page and run wild with it, but it’s a whole other ball game with seeing it represented in a movie.
The words “Common ground” does not sound like the right track Rodney. It sounds more like we’ll give you more money and now do it our way….”Common Ground” sounds like a forced compromise.
Bruce is right, the comment sounds like an awful excuse. I really hope we`ll get Jonze`s directors cut on DVD.
That quote sound awful, in other words its going to be bland. I hope the original leaks onto the net.