AICN and MTV’s Movie Blog score the first production still from Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are. Looks just about perfect.
Category: Spike Jonze
Wild at Heart.
The vocal cast for Where the Wild Things Are fills out, with Benicio Del Toro, Michael Berry Jr., Paul Dano, Tom Noonan, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker and Michelle Williams joining in Spike Jonze’s after-bedtime shenanigans.
From Harper Lee to Wild Things.
Catherine Keener joins Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, which looks set to go, as Max’s Mom (and the instigator of his adventures in the Wild kingdom.)
Shave and a Hairy Monster (or two).
Genre director update: As if their Willy Wonka wasn’t creepy-serial-killer enough, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp will soon reunite for Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. Meanwhile, the Spike Jonze-Dave Eggers interpretation of Where the Wild Things Are lands at Warner Bros. Says author Maurice Sendak of the project: “I am in love with it. If Spike and Dave do not do this movie now, I would just as soon not see any version of it ever get made.“
Spike’s Gone Wild.
Word is Spike Jonze will be directing Where the Wild Things Are. (So much for the horror movie.) I’m not sure I like this recent trend of turning ten-minute kids’ books into full-fledged feature films, but if you’re going to do it, Jonze’s your man.
Confessions of two Dangerous Minds.
Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, the team behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, prepare to make a horror film. I’ll go see it.
Weapons of Choice.
By way of Do You Feel Loved, how cool are these? Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry will each be coming out with tricked-up retrospective DVDs this fall. Here’s one way I can repay Cunningham for unauthorized use of his Bjorkbots in the GitM title image.
Books, Bagginses, Belluccis.
A slew of teaser posters for long-awaited flicks have hit the web in the past few days, included the one-sheet for Adaptation, four more character-oriented TTT posters, and this first look at the lovely Monica Bellucci as Persephone in the Matrix sequels. (Notice her head isn’t cut off as in the first six preview posters…as it turns out full versions of each of them can be seen at the official site.)
Screenplay of Glass.
Today Kevin Murphy blogs the trailer for Adaptation, the new film from the Being John Malkovich team of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman. He can’t say Nicolas Cage has been much of a draw lately, but perhaps this’ll be a comeback role for the star of Raising Arizona.