A movie is one thing...

This, though... this I don't think I can support:

The Eggers book, an adult novel based on Maurice Sendak´s classic Where the Wild Things Are was actually acquired by Ecco last winter, but kept quiet until now. Foreign rights are in play at Frankfurt and Ecco publisher Dan Halpern is predicting, "I think it`s going to be his biggest book. I think it´s going to be huge." Ecco is publishing the book in fall 2008, to coincide with the Spike Jonze movie adaptation based on Sendak´s book, for which Eggers wrote the screenplay.

Who knows?  Maybe he'll prove me wrong. 

But I'm not going to hold my breath.

(Are other people going to start doing this?  Who's going to write the novel based on Miss Rumphius?  Or, even better, Love You Forever?  Actually, that one I might read.)