As a rule of thumb, Pete Wentz is excited about pretty much everything, so when I was talking to him yesterday about Fall Out Boy’s upcoming arena tour — which he’s dubbed the “Young Wild Things Tour,” in a nod to Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” — it wasn’t exactly breaking news that he was super-pumped to hit the road. But what was rather interesting was just closely he was following the upcoming Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of the book, which is tentatively due from Warner Bros. next October (see our first look from the film here).

“I’m so excited to see the new movie. I’ve only seen one picture but it was stunning - I think it’s an Eggerts script. This movie was a long time coming,” he wrote me in an email. “When I was a kid I wanted to be Max when I grew up, which was insane because he was another kid. I think every parent should read this story to their kid.”

See, I didn’t even know Eggers was writing the screenplay! And while Wentz is probably counting down the days until “Where the Wild Things Are” hits theaters, he was decidedly less enthused about another “Wild” flick, 1998’s Denise Richards/Neve Campbell nude-a-thon “Wild Things.”

“That movie with all the nudity and all is kind of crazy but I’m more interested in seeing the adaptation,” he wrote.


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