From Brooklyn to the big screen! Finally, the Where the Wild Things Are trailer has premiered, and October can't get here soon enough, right? Let's just hope the Spike Jonze-directed adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic '60s children's story gets the IMAX treatment.
Jonze co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Eggers, and they had much filling in to do, as the original is just ten sentences long! In 2007, NYMag got their hands on the 111-page screenplay, and declared it to be "really, really good." As for the original author, Sendak was born in Brooklyn "to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and decided to become an illustrator after viewing Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve." His original idea for the book featured horses, but he changed those to monsters upon realizing he couldn't draw a horse. For more wild things, head to the "6th borough" to check out the There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak exhibit.
