Wild Things on the big screen
After rather firmly stating his opinion on children’s books made into films (”What is the purpose of this debauchery? Money! Only a seriously sick or brainless person could like them”), Maurice Sendak has finally been seduced by Hollywood, or, more precisely, by Spike Jonze.
“He was the strangest little bird I’d ever seen,” Mr. Sendak said. “He had fluttered into the world of the studios and, could he not be swatted dead, I knew he would manage. I had total faith in him.”
Jonze will direct the feature film of Where the Wild Things Are, adapted for the screen by Dave Eggers.
