For a little over a year, Jean Pierre Jeunet has been working on his first English-language film since the rather disastrous Alien Resurrection. Now he’s busy putting the cast together, with Variety reporting that Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates are on for the film, The Young And Prodigious Spivet.
Jeunet co-wrote the script regular collaborator Guillaume Laurent, adapting Rief Larsons novel, The Selected Works Of TS Spivet. The tale is about youngster Spivet (Kyle Catlett), a boy who has extraordinary navigation and other skills, who decides to leave his father (Callum Keith Rennie) and the rest of his family behind in Montana to head out on a cross-country quest to the Smithsonian in Washington to receive a prize. There’s no news on exactly who Bonham Carter and Bates will play, but Variety suggests they’ll have significant roles.
The movie will be shot in 3D, even if it doesn’t sound like the sort of movie that would need an extra dimension. However it sounds like Jeunet is hoping to bring some Amelie style magic and plenty of visual effects to the film, so perhaps 3D will add something. Shooting starts June 30th, with the movie planned for release late in 2013.
In the mid 2000s Richard Shepard made The Matador and The Hunting Party. They were both good movies but also rather underappreciated, so he’s had to go back to TV for the past few years. Now he’s returning to feature films with Dom Hemingway, and 
It’s only a couple of weeks until Prometheus finally hits on June 1st, and now a couple of new featurettes have been released to take us deeper into the movie and get us a little bit more excited (if that’s possible). Here’s the synopsis: ‘Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.’
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the horror-thriller The Possession, about a malicious spirit which is set free after a young girl purchases a seemingly-harmless antique box. The film is due to hit cinemas August 31, but now the trailer has arrived, which is designed to give us the willies while seeming a little bit silly. It’s allegedly based on a true story, but we’ll leave it to you to decide just how true the film is.
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