Where The Wild Things Are Featurette

[dnwilliams]

The Telegraph have uploaded a featurette on Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are, which you can view below.



What continues to amaze is the way in which Jonze lends authenticity to something inherently ludicrous. What could so easily have had the garish visual quality and self-concious surreality of the dire Dr Seuss adaptations is more comparable to The Dark Knight's amalgamation of the formal and the fantastic.

Wouldn't it be nice, what with Where The Wild Things Are and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox coming out this year, if it became fashionable for indie directors to tackle children's movies? That way rather than the generic, bland fare that is often shovelled into theatres (lacklustre adaptations of Charlotte's Web, Alex rider, etc.) we'd get...well Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze movies for kids.

What kid's books would work well in the hands of an indie director, or just super-talented, unique visionaries? Terry Gilliam's Artemis Fowl? Jason Reitman's George's Marvellous Medicine?

Source: Empire

[twaddington]

I would have loved to have seen Terry Gilliam's take on Harry Potter but alas it wasn't to be.

[Sheridan Passell]

I listened to his Comic-Con press conference last week, he said his take on Harry Potter would have been very similar to the third one.

[dnwilliams]

wow, i didn't even know that was meant to happen!

[dnwilliams]

sounds like he's happy it didn't: http://digg.com/u3CBhq

MTV: What would your "Potter" have been like?

Gilliam: Alfonso Cuaron's ["Prisoner of Azkaban"] is really good, but the first two I thought were just shite. They missed the whole point of it; they missed the magic of it ... Alfonso did something much closer to what I would've done.

i've only seen the first movie and read none of the books...

[Sheridan Passell]

I don't think the first Harry Potter is shite at all. It created the whole world, found the excellent cast. The first book was tonally very different and it suited that. Personally I'm glad Gilliam didn't do it, he would have tried to make it his own and it didn't need that.