

More details to come as the production gears up. Lensing will take place in Canada next summer with Gaumont slated to distribute the movie in France. The book has three distinct sections - each so different they could have come from separate novels. Yet there is still just about enough to it to justify the effort of reading it. We’re definitely always excited to see what Jeunet conjures up next, and this certainly has all the usual whimsical ingredients the director works with. The Selected Works Of TS Spivet - A Novel fails in so many ways. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist looking for a. And we presume those names are a good indicator of the kind of tone the illustration rich material has. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. Spivet is a story like no other: exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming and unbearably poignant. Since then, we haven’t stopped working,” Jeunet said. And why are adults so strange The Selected Works of T.S. “When I contacted the author, he said that there were five directors with whom he wanted to make the film: David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Michel Gondry and myself. But as he reveals, Larsen only had a select and high profile few directors in mind to make a movie out of his book, and luckily for Jeunet, he was the first one to give him a ring. So yes, it’s right in Jeunet’s typically fantastical wheelhouse. ‘Bigbug’ Review: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Latest Is a Dreadful Sex Farce Set During the Robot ApocalypseĬo-written with his “Amelie” co-writer Guillaume Laurant, ‘Spivet’ revolves around a 12-year-old cartography enthusiast in an eccentric family, who travels across country hidden on board a freight train after being invited to the Smithsonian Institute.
