You could probably do many pieces on AICN‘s excellent and informative interview with Spike Jonze and his adaptation of “Where The Wild Things Are,” the piece is so chocked full of info, but wait… Billy Bob Thornton? The casting of the voices was announced a long time ago – we did an entire piece on what actors was voicing what monster – people like James Gandolfini, Forest Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano and more (all of them here).
However, there was one character whose voice (actor) was never announced and we weren’t 100% about – the Bull character, Daniel, who never had any lines in the script to begin with. However, the guy who saw the original controversial test screening told us the Bull did have a few lines in our lengthy and detailed script review (we compared notes to what he saw). Could they have been voiced by Billy Bob Thorton, or has some actor been replaced entirely?
AICN talks about a clip they’re shown.
[The clip he showed is after the Wild Things have named Max their king, and he’s charged with figuring out What To Do. One of his suggestions is a dirt clod war on a rugged series of hills that gets seriously out of hand, so that one of the Wild Things (voiced by Billy Bob Thornton) gets seriously hurt and storms off, upset and angry.]
Were they just hearing things wrong? If this is correct, it’s new info for sure. Someone let us know.
