AMELIE'S Jean-Pierre Jeunet set for two new adaptations

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) has found his two next projects. Variety reports that he has purchased the film rights to Reif Larsen's debut novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as well as Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook. The Spivet adaptation is being co-written by Jeunet and  Guillaume Laurant, they also worked together on Amelie and A Very Long Engagement. Both projects are planned as directing vehicled for Jeunet, with the English-language Spivet being up first.

Jeunet's Tapioca Films is producing Red Leaves with American producer Eric Bromberg, who, along with Channing Tatum and his producing partner Reid Carolin, most recently sold Pan to Sony with Tatum attached to star.

Spivet is about "a 12-year-old cartographer's cross-country adventure from Montana to the Smithsonian Museum." This project will explore the imaginative mind of a child, mixing realism and fantasy. Red Leaves centers around "the crumbling life of a father of a 15-year old boy accused of kidnapping an 8-year old."

These sound like interesting projects for Jeunnet. What are your thoughts?