Where The Wild Things Are – Trailer
Posted by Stephen Fairbanks on March 29, 2009
Where The Wild Things Are
Finally, here be Monsters – or rather Wild Things. The trailer for Sir Spike of Jonze’s latest has now stumbled its way into the realm of the inter‘tweb… a full 9 years after the teaser for the film was attached to The Grinch.
There seems to be a trend of late to release films amidst a backdrop of studio squabbles and backstabbery. Recently, there was talk of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen being shelved (after the fans waiting patiently for over a year after the titillating first shot of Rorschach) because of a distribution argument between Warner Bros. and Fox. – and now, with Where The Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze supposedly quarrelled with Universal regarding a ‘creative differences’ thing, before taking the film to Warner Bros. who promptly said they’d like to re-shoot everything – and with a different director. Luckily for Jonze, they didn’t.
Anyhoo. Enough with the legal meanderings, and conjectural hearsay, the trailer can be viewed below, and it appears to be rather lovely. Arcade Fire’s whimsical Wake Up seems an appropriate choice for a story of a boy escaping into a dream world, and the film itself is littered with voices (and occasional physical appearance) of some great actor-types: – James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Cooper, Forest Whittaker, Lauren Ambrose… all indie favourites.
The film, not taking into consideration any further bust-ups, will be released on mid-Octorber, and I, for one, am exciteded.
Reader Comments
Im looking forward to this but Im very dubious, mainly because its a yank kids film so… of course everyone should be. Im hoping that it has an element of horror in it. Not an 18′s but just (Ill make up a word) “imagination horror”. I want to be scared of this film remembering what it was like to be a kid.
Nicely put, Simon.
I’m hoping for the same. I remember how amazed I was by spooky films when I was a kid… before the cynicism seeped in.
Most films aimed at the youthful audience don’t really seem to hold much suspense / terror these days. It all seems a little too coochy-coo – for want of a better phrase. If you go back and watch the films like Goonies… there’s some genuine peril there… which was what made it great.