I’ll be honest and say I didn’t know too much about THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET before watching the new trailer from Entertainment One UK, and at first glance I get the sense of a little Wes Anderson entwined with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s very distinct direction.
You’ll know him best for AMELIE but also like the likes of MICMACS (2009) and before that, the rather unique DELICATESSEN from 1991 but this time, he’s turned to an adventure film with a young lead that’s based on the book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, written by Reif Larsen.
THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET stars Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, and Kyle Catlett as T.S. Spivet and, as these are early days, here’s that official introduction just before the trailer below:
T.S. Spivet lives on a remote ranch in Montana with his parents, his sister Gracie and his brother Layton. A gifted child with a passion for science, he has invented a perpetual motion machine, for which he has been awarded the prestigious Baird Prize by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
He leaves a note for his family and hops a freight train to make his way across the United States and receive his prize.
But no one there suspects that the lucky winner is a ten-year-old child with a very dark secret…
Watch the charming trailer below and let us know what you think:
THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET opens in the UK on June 13th.
Source: EntertainmentOne
