Where the Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Genre: Children's, Family Film, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: United States of America, Australia, Germany
Language: English Language
Starring: Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Angus Sampson, Paul Dano, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara, Sam Longley, Chris Cooper, Alice Parkinson, Steve Mouzakis, Lauren Ambrose, Sonny Gerasimowicz, Nick Farnell, Max Records, Michael Berry Jr., Mark Ruffalo
Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are. It combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery (CGI). The film stars Max Records, and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara and Chris Cooper. The film centers around a lonely eight-year-old boy named Max who sails away to an island inhabited by creatures known as the "Wild Things", who declare Max their king.
In the early 1980s Disney considered adapting the film as a blend of traditionally animated characters and computer-generated settings, but development did not go past a test film to see how the animation hybridizing would work out. In 2001, Universal Studios acquired rights to the book's adaptation and initially attempted to develop a computer-animated adaptation with Disney animator Eric Goldberg, but the animated version was replaced with a live-action concept in 2003, and Goldberg was dropped for Spike Jonze. The film was co-produced by actor Tom Hanks through his production company Playtone and
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