Spike Jonze’ Where the Wild Things Are has been anticipated as a magical adaptation of the children’s illustrated book. But where is it? News has come out that they are pushing back its release date without any reason, and that gets a lot of people asking questions. Typically this means bad things in production.
“We’ve given him more money and, even more importantly, more time for him to work on the film,” Horn said. “We’d like to find a common ground that represents Spike’s vision but still offers a film that really delivers for a broad-based audience. We obviously still have a challenge on our hands. But I wouldn’t call it a problem, simply a challenge. No one wants to turn this into a bland, sanitized studio movie. This is a very special piece of material and we’re just trying to get it right.”
This is refreshing to hear. Usually delays have to do with unfortunate complications, poor planning or just creative differences. Sometimes these things are enough to ruin a film entirely.
But to solve these things, sacrifices get made and the film suffers for it and the finger pointing begins. But it is nice to see that the studio has enough faith in this project to say he is on the right track and they had to admit that giving him some more money and time would be sufficient to see it done right.
We are living in strange times when the studios are willing to dump more money into a project to preserve its integrity without a fight.
