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This is nonfiction commentary Chapters Where the Wild Things Are Adaptation Being John Malkovich We Were Once a Fairytale Yeah Right How They Get There the Mystery of Dalaro Video Days Torrance Rises Wikipedia Pages 54 Not illustrated Free updates online Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from than a million books without charge Excerpt 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 Catherine Keener and Mark Ruffalo and features the voices of James Gandolfini Paul Dano Lauren Ambrose and Forest Whitaker 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 acuired 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 made on an estimated budget of around 100000000 The film was released on October 16 2009 in the United States and on December 11 2009 in the United Kingdom The film was met with mostly critical acclaim and appeared on many year end top ten lists The film was released to DVD and Blu Ray disc on March 2 2010 The film bhttp booksllcnet?id3677015