I finally got around to seeing “Where the Wild Things Are” today. I don’t know what took me so long, I absolutely loved it. The simple but effective cinematography was beautiful to look at and Max Records’s (Max) performance called back many memories from when I was a kid (Okay, I was kind of a strange kid). “Where the Wild Things Are” is one of those rare films that I think both children and adults will love, and it certainly does not have any of the low-brow cheap laughs I’ve come to expect from most children’s films these days.
Anyway, surfing around this great world wide web of ours after the film I came across some interesting footage from a while back, way back: 1983 to be exact. Before Warner Brothers made “Where The Wild Things Are”, Universal had the rights. Before Universal, Disney had the rights and in 1983 they made a short test film with traditional animated characters with computer animated backgrounds. Directed by John Lasseter this short test gives us an idea of what the scrapped animated version might have looked like.
Source: Guardian
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