The Story Behind Where The Wild Things Are

And its ten year journey to the big screen...


2006 – One of the biggest ever open-call auditions begins...

On July 8th, 2006, Spike Jonze’s production started the open audition process to find their Max.

Little did they know it’d lead to one of the biggest casting processes in history, with tens of thousands of misunderstood and rebellious 7 – 11 year olds from all over the world turning up in homemade wolf suits. The process took months, but, eventually the appropriately named Max Records was cast.

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