Warner Goes WILD for Project

Awesome. One of the coolest director's in Hollywood doing one of the coolest children's books of all time. Me likey.

Never heard of this one. Looks familiar though...

"One of the coolest children's books of all time"? THE coolest...

I would only see a movie version of this if I had a guaruntee that Tom Hanks would be killed. In real life.

Hanks is just producing though. Is it gonna be like the Polar Express then? Or live action/animation a la Roger Rabbit? Or a la Pagemaster?

My kids loved this book. I hope its a short movie. NOt much there.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is the coolest children's book ever! Thank gawd Universal isn't involved, as Universal has a reputation for screwing over authors of source material, not being true to the material and authors' wishes. Universal/NBC has screwed over and molested the source material of Glen Larosn of Battlestar Galactica and LeGuin of Earthsea. Warner Bros is the superior studio and respects authors.

Universal/NBC/Sci Fi Channel horror story:
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[b]Glen Larson speaks out against SFC's molesting his BSG source material!

‘Battlestar Galactica’ returns
But fans of original are wary of remake[/b]


Updated: 1:15 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2003

A few years ago, fans thought they’d get the continuation saga they’d clamored for when Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, the director-writer team behind “X-Men,” hooked up with original “Galactica” creator Glen Larson to develop a project at 20th Century Fox.
When that deal fell through, Universal TV chief David Kissinger brought in executive producer David Eick and Moore to rework the franchise for Sci Fi.
“We want the fans to embrace what we are doing,” says Sci Fi President Bonnie Hammer, “but if you produced now what was produced then, it would feel like old TV. We wanted to make it more relatable, even in terms of the stereotypes of characters.”
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[b]“I understand they’re trying to do a modern version,” says Larson. “But change for the sake of change — it’s taking the title and exploiting it.”[/b]
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[url]http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660380[/url]

How Universal/NBC/Sci Fi Channel screwed over another author:
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[b]Apparently, SFC has an infamous record of molesting the source material of authors, against their wishes. BOYCOTT SCI FI CHANNEL![/b]
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[b]A Whitewashed Earthsea

How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books.
By Ursula K. Le Guin[/b]

Posted Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, at 6:14 AM PT

On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. [b]I don't know what the film is about. It's full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense. My protagonist is Ged, a boy with red-brown skin. In the film, he's a petulant white kid.[/b] Readers who've been wondering why I "let them change the story" may find some answers here.

When I sold the rights to Earthsea a few years ago, my contract gave me the standard status of "consultant"—which means whatever the producers want it to mean, almost always little or nothing. My agency could not improve this clause. But [b]the purchasers talked as though they genuinely meant to respect the books and to ask for my input when planning the film. They said they had already secured Philippa Boyens (who co-wrote the scripts for The Lord of the Rings) as principal script writer.[/b] The script was, to me, all-important, so Boyens' presence was the key factor in my decision to sell this group the option to the film rights.

Months went by. [b]By the time the producers got backing from the Sci Fi Channel for a miniseries—and another producer, Robert Halmi Sr., had come aboard—they had lost Boyens. That was a blow.[/b] But I had just seen Halmi'

You know... I just don't freakin... yes I do... what a sad human you must be to post this crap here. wow you are one screwed up individual.

Back to topic.

I did see this book, my son has it... forgot all about it... it's really really light, I don't see a full length movie coming out of this.