A h/t to Jeff M who forwarded this feature at Total Film.com detailing the enormously complex tale of what it took to get Maurice Sendak’s delightful book “Where the Wild Things Are” onto the silver screen:

Every now and then a trailer hits the totalfilm.com office that makes us sit up and take notice.

Sometimes it’s because they’re exciting, like the third Star Trek trailer and sometimes it’s because they’re worrying, like the second Wolverine trailer.

But sometimes, it’s because they’re so beautiful they make us gawp in wonder.

Where The Wild Things Are is one such trailer.

It looks like Labyrinth meets The Neverending Story with a little bit of Being John Malkovich thrown in for good measure, which is exactly what we’ve always hoped for from this project.

It seems Spike Jonze has turned a ten sentence kids’ book into a work of cinematic art.

In short, we adore it. It’s perfect. And it’s vindication for Jonze, who has seen his pet project kicked and punched several times during its long journey to the trailer stage.

So we thought we’d stop replaying it over and over again, and take a moment to look back at Wild Things’ tortured ten year travel to our laptop screens…

We featured the trailer here. For those too slothful to click through, here it is again:

And here’s a special treat: You can go here to download the script.