'Wild Things' Assistant Editor Confirms Some Reshoots, Script Re-Writes & Spike Jonze Still On The Project

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Assistant Editor on Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are Says Everything is Cool
Published 4/26/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... with far more incessant and foreboding rumors, Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, hasn’t received similar lip service from its studio or the talent involved. Over at The Playlist, the site’s blogger is snarkily cursing the Internet and geeks for jumping the gun and signaling “the red alert” now that the 2009 film’s assistant editor, James Haygood, has given a calm and collected update on the film’s status. Here’s what Haygood (Fincher’s The Game, ...

Spike Jonze Not Yet Fired From ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
Published 4/28/2008 at Vulture
... Movies-and-music blog the Playlist makes a nice catch in a wonky technical interview with film editor James Haygood, who's one of the editors working on Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's awesome-we-hope adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic. The movie has indeed gone back into reshoots, according to Haygood, and some scenes are being rewritten as well. Jonze is still actively working on the project. The Playlist takes movie blogs to task for getting all hysterical about the reshoots, but we make no apologies for our teenage emo drama ...