Where the Wild Things Are (film)
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| Directed by | Spike Jonze |
| Produced by |
Tom Hanks Gary Goetzman Maurice Sendak John Carls Vincent Landay |
| Screenplay by | Spike Jonze Dave Eggers |
| Based on |
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
| Starring |
Max Records Catherine Keener Mark Ruffalo Lauren Ambrose Chris Cooper James Gandolfini Catherine O'Hara Forest Whitaker |
| Music by |
Karen O Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | Lance Acord |
| Edited by |
Eric Zumbrunnen James Haygood |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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104 minutes |
| Country | Australia Germany United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100 million |
| Box office | $100.1 million |
Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze. Written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, it is adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. 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 on 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 environments, but development did not go past a test film to see how the animation hybridizing would result. 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 CGI concept was replaced with a live-action one in 2003, and Goldberg was dropped for Spike Jonze. The film was co-produced by actor Tom Hanks through his production company Playtone and made on an estimated budget of $100 million.Where the Wild Things Are was a joint production between Australia, Germany, and the United States, and was filmed principally in Melbourne.
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