Spielberg And Tintin Still Going To Happen

By George 'El Guapo' Roush on August 26, 2008

From the trades comes nail biting Tintin news:

Although Brussels' Herge Studios seems to think otherwise, Steven Spielberg remains committed to directing the first in a planned "Tintin" trilogy for DreamWorks. It will be his next directing effort after this summer's $780 million-worldwide-grossing "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

Herge Studios, which holds the rights to the iconic comic strip character, said Tuesday via a spokesman that Peter Jackson was moving into the director's chair for the first film. But both Jackson's and Spielberg's camps say that Jackson in fact remains attached to direct the sequel, though he will still be a producer on the first.

In the meantime, Jackson will finish postproduction on "The Lovely Bones" for DreamWorks/Paramount before moving on to co-write the two "Hobbit" movies for New Line and MGM.

The first "Tintin" feature will be based on two of the books, "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure," written by Tintin creator Herge between 1942 and 1944.

The film, scripted by "Doctor Who" writer Stephen Moffat, will be animated with motion-capture technology and star 18-year-old Thomas Sangster as Tintin and Andy Serkis as his friend Captain Haddock.

I had a lot of the comic books growing up, but not once did I ever hope a movie would be made out of them. Is anyone else excited about a Tintin series of films?

Source:The Trades

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• Tue Aug 26 at 22:18 EST

  Yeah, I remember watching the animated series back in the 1980s, but it was pretty shit. I don't understand what would be appealing about this at all. Asterix movie, anyone?

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