Meet the 'Wild Things': New Character Posters

On October 16th, Where the Wild Things Are will arrive in theaters nationwide, and that's been a bumpy road. Depending on who or what you believe, this film was in shambles when director Spike Jonze handed it in to Warner Bros. The studio wasn't content with that, and so the story goes that Jonze essentially re-shot the whole movie, or enough of it that he might as well have started over. But from the trailers and the posters, you'd never know this was a troubled production. Jonze is his own breed of cat, so it's not entirely surprising that he'd have a finished product of a story that has so many baked-in expectations that didn't line up with what the studio thought it would get. Hopefully, they've found that happy medium between art and commerce. However, If I had to choose one over the other in this case, I'd fall on the side of art. I love the new character posters for Where the Wild Things Are, which are arriving a little later than I would have thought. Usually, these come pretty early on in the marketing. Still, they're very enjoyable.
Posters courtesy of My Space The one thing I do wonder about is whether or not the parts of the story that Jonze had to add (the book is something like 40 pages long) interrupt that sensibility in Maurice Sendak's original text that make it so special and timeless. If Jonze keeps that stuff in tact...well, then, look out.