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 . 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 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 acquired 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.
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| Release date: | October 13, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Spike Jonze |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 101 Minutes |
| Producer: | Maurice Sendak, Tom Hanks, Vincent Landay, John B. Carls, Gary Goetzman |
| Editor: | James Haygood, Eric Zumbrunnen |
| Music by: | Carter Burwell, Karen O |
| Cinematography: | Lance Acord |
| Screenplay by: | Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers |
| Estimated budget: | $115,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Where The Wild Things Are |
| Genre: | Children's, Adventure, Fantasy |