Wild Things Clip Looks Pretty Cool

The track record for children's books being adapted into feature films is pretty poor, so I didn't get very excited when I heard that Spike Jonze was bringing Where The Wild Things Are to the big screen.

However - there's a clip (brought to you via Gawker/Sloan) that's leaked (or 'leaked') out that happily looks really promising. Granted, the picture quality is pretty poor, so the effects could be anything under all that grain. But the character interaction is really charming - I'm really curious to see what kind of story is surrounding this! It looks like I'll have to wait 'til next year to find out...

UPDATE (2/20): Here's Spike Jonez's explanation of the clip...

DARK HORIZONS: Jonze Responds To "Wild Things" Clip
By Garth Franklin - Wednesday, February 20th 2008 2:47am

Warner Bros. has released a statement from director Spike Jonze regarding "Where The Wild Things Are" in response to a clip that was posted recently online.

"That was a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work.

The clip doesn’t look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype, and the boy is a friend of ours Griffin who we had used in a Yeah Yeah Yeahs video we shot a few weeks before.

We love him, but he is not in the actually film...Oh and that is not a wolf suit, its a lamb suit we bought on the internet. Talk to you later."

The film is scheduled to open later in the year.