Four years after Spike Jonze began shooting this adaptation of the classic Maurice Sendak children’s book, there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel. And despite reports of production difficulties and tension between the filmmakers and the money men, I’ve got to say this looks pretty awesome. Certainly one of the biggest challenges faced by Jonze and his co-screenwriter Dave Eggers was how to adapt a novel that consisted of roughly a dozen sentences into a full-fledged movie while remaining true to the original. And judging by the trailer, it appears that they’ve done so without padding out the story too much. Instead, it looks like they’ve emphasized the scenes between Max (Max Records) and the Wild Things, particularly the adventures and mischief they find together. I had high hopes for this before, but this trailer has only propelled them higher. After all, how can one hate a movie in which James Gandolfini voices a furry, cuddly monster?