{"id":22,"date":"2009-06-22T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-06-22T11:14:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:14:50","slug":"spike-jonez-and-where-the-wild-things-are-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2009\/06\/22\/spike-jonez-and-where-the-wild-things-are-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Jonze and &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone have more information on the test screenings?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/pictureyear.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/weekend-video.html<\/p>\n<p><em>Over a year ago, rumors began to circulate that the $75 million dollar film of \u201cWhere The Wild Things Are\u201d was in trouble. Directed by Spike Jonze, with a script by Dave Eggers, monsters from the Jim Henson company, and music by Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeah\u2019s), the film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children\u2019s classic had intriguing creative\/hipster potential. But the word was that it too dark and scary and the actor playing the mischievous Max had failed to impress the brass at Warner Brothers. Test screenings were reputedly disastrous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s now slated for an October 2009 release, but if the above trailer is anything to go by, it certainly looks visually impressive. I\u2019m keeping my fingers crossed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone have more information on the test screenings? http:\/\/pictureyear.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/weekend-video.html Over a year ago, rumors began to circulate that the $75 million dollar film of \u201cWhere The Wild Things Are\u201d was in trouble. Directed by Spike Jonze, with a script by Dave Eggers, monsters from the Jim Henson company, and music by Karen O (of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26363,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}