The book has since been adapted into a live-action film by Legendary Entertainment/Universal Studios and directed by Spike Jonze, and was released in October 16, 2009.
However, due to the fact it was going to be too expensive, and the difficulty in expanding the 40-page book into a feature film, the film was dropped. 1963 Style: Nave Art (Primitivism) Genre: illustration Tags: Tree Natural environment Palm tree Arecales Organism Jungle Adaptation Adventure game Maurice Sendak Famous works Where The Wild Things Are 1963 In the Night Kitchen XX-XXI cent. Where The Wild Things Are tells the story of a boy named Max, who is making mischief throughout his house. Where The Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Date: c. The backgrounds were going to be CGI and the characters were going to be traditional animated. Plot Summary Where The Wild Things Are written by Maurice Sendak is a popular fantasy fiction picture book that was first published in 1963 and has continued its popularity to today. It would of told the story of a young boy called Max who after dressing in his wolf costume, wrecks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper, and his journey to an island inhabited by malicious beasts.ĭisney originally owned the film rights for Where the Wild Things Are as far back as the 1980s, but they were never used.Ī test sequence was animated. It was going to be directed by John Lasseter who went to work for Disney. Where the Wild Things Are was a cancelled animated film based on the 1963 book by Maurice Sendak by the same name. Basis for the 2009 film directed by Spike Jonze starring Max Records and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara, and Chris Cooper.Where The Wild Things Are - Early DISNEY CG Animation Test-0 The book was awarded the 1964 Caldecott Medal by the American Library Association" (NYPL Books of the Century 212). Reaching back into his own Brooklyn childhood, Sendak created the enduring child-hero Max, who overcomes his fears and achieves catharsis in a colorful fantasy tableau.
"Wild Things!' When Max's sojourn among them unfolded in kinematic splendor in 1963, adults trembled and children reveled. Hailed as "the Picasso of children's books," Maurice Sendak produced more than 85 books, of which Where the Wild Things Are is undeniably the most famous, being one of the ten best-selling children's books of all time. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. This is the correct first state of the dust jacket with no mention of the Caldecott award, and a $3.50 price at top of front flap. Near fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket. Boldly signed by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page. Oblong quarto, original cloth backed pictorial paper boards. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.įirst edition in the first-issue dust jacket of one of the scarcest and most desirable books in modern children’s literature.
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