Where The Wild Things Are - Early DISNEY CG Animation Test-0
Where the Wild Things Are was a cancelled 2D-3D hybrid animated film based on the 1963 book by Maurice Sendak by the same name. It was going to be directed by John Lasseter who went to work for Disney.
Synopsis[]
It would of told the story of a young boy called Max who after dressing in his wolf costume, wrecks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper, and his journey to an island inhabited by malicious beasts.
History[]
Disney originally owned the film rights for Where the Wild Things Are as far back as the 1980s, but they were never used.
A test sequence was animated. The backgrounds were going to be CGI and the characters were going to be traditional animated. However, due to the fact it was going to be too expensive, and the difficulty in expanding the 40-page book into a feature film, the film was dropped.
The book has since been adapted into a live-action film from Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Entertainment, and Village Roadshow Pictures and directed by Spike Jonze, with costumes for the titular creatures built by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop and was released in the United States on October 16, 2009.