My first website was called the Rumpus Society. It was crude and loosely based (stolen from) the Ruckus Society. Mostly it was just me learning how to use html but it did include some worship of Maurice Sendak (and a good amount of hate for Bono which he reciprocated.)
The Where the Wild Things Are movie is finally going to be released in October. Spike Jonze, the director, and his people have blog. I sent them some pics of the Max/Van Gogh tatt that Fip did for me in 2001. They posted them. Great site with great links.
Dave Eggers wrote the screenplay for the movie. According to Dave and Spike, Maurice suggest that they novelize it as well. They did. It is coming out on October 1. There is an excerpt in the current issue of the New Yorker. I fucking love it. For anyone who like me, couldn’t figure out how the original book could become a movie, this will give you an idea. The struggle to get the movie out has been well documented. The studio hated the first version. We’ll see how it comes out –I’m rooting for it. However it goes, the potential for DVDs of director’s cuts and other versions is endless.
I think that I’ve gotten over my fanboy protectiveness of beloved books made into movies. Fight Club and Trainspotting helped cure me. Favorite books made into movies that totally stood on their own, in my opinion. But you know how fans can be. Lizz sent me this from Stuff White People Like– kind of nails it.
Sendak was quite involved, I like Eggers, and Spike comes from skateboarding and made Being John Malkovitch so I think it has a good foundation. Either way, I’m keeping my ink. Nobody better fucking mess with Calvin and Hobbes, though.
6 responses so far ↓
1 vanityimpaired // Oct 3, 2009 at 9:14 am
If Calvin and Hobbes were given animated voices I would have to kill somebody
2 cecil // Oct 3, 2009 at 6:29 pm
As you know, Watterson has never allowed anything like that and never will. If you are going to kill someone, how about whoever is making those stupid stickers with Calvin on his knees in front of a cross?
3 vanityimpaired // Oct 3, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Yeah I remember him saying in one of the anthologies, “This is the most copyright-infringed image”, of C&H dancing. I sure wish they could sic the cease-and-desist lawyers against the cross-kneelers and the Calvin-pissing-ers.
4 cecil // Oct 4, 2009 at 6:43 pm
or combine them and have him pissing on a cross…
5 Michael // Jan 30, 2010 at 1:02 pm
here is one that is gonna make you shit a little, cecil. if it is true, the director of Twilight is set to direct the moneky wrench gang this year. and rumor has the worst casting in history, of John Goodman as George Hayduke.
6 Cecil // Jan 30, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Yeah, I heard about the Hardwicke thing. Goodman is not Hayduke, though. Word is that will be Matthew McConaughey. Richard Dreyfuss is set to be Doc Sarvis. Goodman will be Bishop Dudley Love or some composite law enforcement, politician bad guy type. Elisabeth Shue is allegedly set as Bonnie Abzugg. The good news is that the screenplay is to be adapted by William Goldman. This thing has been kicking around for years. Robert Redford was once set to make it. I expect the worst.
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