Where the Wild Things Are



A big screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are, in which Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things, where he is made king.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop is working on the film. Several actors are providing voices for the monsters, while Henson is providing the anamatronic puppets for the Wild Things.

The seven Wild Things stand as tall as 275 centimeters.

"We had Forest Whitaker and James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams and, oh, man, please get the list. Really great actors. We all workshopped the characters of the Wild Things. Catherine Keener and Spike Jonze took turns playing the little boy, Max. We were working from a script, but we were also improvising a lot. They played the little boy, and the rest of us played the Wild Things. I'm one of the Wild Things. My name is Judith. We shot this for two weeks on a commercial stage in L.A., and then they took that, basically our voices, but also our character work,...and they're now shooting it in Australia, with a live little boy."


 * -Catherine O'Hara

Crew

 * Director: Spike Jonze
 * Producer: Maurice Sendak, Tom Hanks
 * Story: Maurice Sendak
 * Screenplay: Dave Eggers, Michael Goldenberg, Spike Jonze

Cast

 * Max: Max Records
 * Max's Mom: Catherine Keener
 * Wild Things (voices): Michael Berry Jr., Paul Dano, James Gandolfini, Tom Noonan, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker and Michelle Williams