Where the Wild Things Are (film) arrives in time to see him off. He starts to howl and Max howls back, then all the other Wild Things join in. Carol looks at K.W. and she smiles kindly at him. Returning home, Max is embraced by his mother, who gives him a bowl of soup, a piece of cake and a glass of milk and sits with him as he eats. He watches as she falls asleep. "Where the Wild Things Are" started its development life in the early 1980s, originally to be an animated feature by Disney that would have blended traditionally animated characters with computer-generated
Where the Wild Things Are the film. The screenplay was novelized by Eggers as "The Wild Things", published in 2009. In 2012, indie rock quartet alt-J released the song "Breezeblocks", inspired in part by the book. Alt-J keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton said the story and the song share similar ideas about parting with a loved one. "Breezeblocks" reached certified ARIA Gold status in Australia. In 2016, Alessia Cara released her second single, "Wild Things", which charted at number fifty on the "Billboard" Hot 100. In an interview with ABC News Radio, Cara stated she took inspiration from "Where the Wild Things Are", saying "each 'Thing' represents