Thursday, May 17, 2012

Bonham Carter And Bates Join Prodigious Spivet

Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates will star in director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's high-profile English-language 3-D pic "The Young and Prodigious Spivet" reports Variety.


The story,based on Reif Larsen's novel follows a 12-year-old boy (newcomer Kyle Catlett) with extraordinary skills who leaves his family in Montana and takes off on a cross-country adventure to the Smithsonian Museum to receive a prize.

Callum Keith Rennie has been cast as the boy's father.

Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant co-wrote the script.

This film is Jeunet's first English-language effort since 1997's "Alien: Resurrection".

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