"Wild Things" Ahead for Spike Jonze
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:41 AM EST
Universal has set Spike Jonze to direct the adaptation of "Where The Wild Things Are", the classic children's book by Maurice Sendak. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will produce with John Carls and Sendak.
Landing the visually inventive director of "Adaptation" and "Being John Malkovich" has brought about another wild change for the project which was originally developed as a CGI film, but the studio and producers sparked to Jonze's live-action vision.
Published in 1963, "Wild Things" is the Caldecott Medal-winning story of Max, a mischievous boy who is sent to bed without supper. In his room, Max uses his imagination to conjure up a forest populated by the wild things, exotic monsters who embrace Max as their ruler.
