Inside All Of Us There Is Hope…
1999 – Maurice Sendak approaches Spike Jonze...
A film version of Maurice Sendak’s moving mediation on the nature of anger had been mooted since the early ‘90s, but the creator couldn’t connect with a director enough to send his baby into the Hollywood forest.
Until he saw Being John Malkovich, and instantly decided to offer his book to Spike Jonze, who took it from him with a childlike glee.
It was originally intended as an animated flick, but Spike had other ideas…
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