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Howard Berger has said that the classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, was one of the things that inspired him to work in makeup effects. His mother read the book to him every night when he was young, and he still has a life-size “wild thing” in his office. But when Warner Bros. approached him in 2006 about designing creatures for their film adaptation, he turned it down, saying “The direction that they were taking in the movie was certainly not the direction that I would have taken. I didn’t want to get myself in it. I had a sinking feeling about it.” The film opened last weekend, grossing $32.7m in its first three days (domestically). Watch a clip.
Howard Berger is KNB EFX Group Supervisor for all three Narnia films. In 2006, he won an Oscar in “Best Achievement in Makeup” for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Why in the world are they making a ten sentence book into a feature film!??! That’s outrageous! I’m with Howard Berger. That’s such a bad idea
and judging from the clip, the quality of it is just border-line terrible.
Rishda: making a 10-sentence book into a feature film was not the problem for Berger. Book length is irrelevant. Apparently, the problem was Warner Bros.’ approach, as noted above.
I know…I’m with him for different reasons. But that movie looks so hopeless whether the book was five or five hundred pages long. I can’t believe Warner Bros. is even trying to do this. You just can’t trust movie companies nowadays