As most of you know, this week has been loaded with news about the production. All week, rumors have been online that the film might be completely reshot and that Spike might be replaced as director. Fandom has been concerned that they’d never see Spike’s take on the material, and that the test screening sometime last year in Pasadena would be an event that people spoke about like the “Blade Runner” test screenings in Denver and San Diego back in 1982.

Well, we can now relax.

I’ve just spoken with two sources and both of them have confirmed the same story – Spike is not getting replaced as director, Warner Bros. is not reshooting the entire movie, and we will see - at some point - Spike Jonze “Where the Wild Things Are.”

I’ve been told that the movie is doing reshoots and that they’ll be done here in the Los Angeles area. I’ve also been told that Spike is directing them and they’re mostly being done to fix the animation of the Wild Things and to address a few problems with the script. Basically, all the usual stuff that comes up when you make a movie.

The only thing I don’t know for certain is when the movie will get released. I’d imagine that since the film is not even close to completed and that the reshoots are still being planned, 2009 is the earliest we’d see it.

But even if we have to wait till next year, I think you’ll all agree that it’s better to wait and see what Spike has come up with, than to lose his take on the Maurice Sendak story.