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Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are planning a Tintin trilogy. Two stories have been picked from the books, and a 20 minute test reel has been produced. Fans are waiting with baited breath to express disappointment. Perhaps a giant mechanical spider in CGI would be a good idea.
In March, Moulinsart Studios, which holds the rights to Tintin, announced that Spielberg and his company, Dreamworks, had committed to producing at least one Tintin film.
Spielberg, Dreamworks and Jackson have been quietly developing the new project, according to the industry publication Variety.
The Tintin trilogy will feature work by Jackson’s New Zealand-based special effects house, WETA Digital, which was behind the amazing effects in his acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Jackson has already produced a 20-minute Tintin test reel using motion-capture technology, Spielberg told Variety.
“Hergé’s characters have been reborn as living beings, expressing emotion and a soul which goes far beyond anything we’ve seen to date with computer-animated characters,” he said.
Because we all know the characters couldn’t achieve this level of sophistication on anything so dull and two dimensional as the page. All good characters are lined up at the digital doorway between fiction and reality, waiting for a moment in the CGI playtent, to truly live for once.
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May 16th, 2007 at 9:05 am
I know we’re supposed to be all “books rule! movies drool!,” but the nine-year-old boy in my house is shitting his pants with excitement at this one, not to mention the nine-year-old boy in my soul.
The Tintin books are fun, but they read a bit like a full-colour storyboard for a film, anyway.
Shrek, now that was a heartbreaker….
August 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
oooh… oh my. I may have been living under a rock, to just discover this now.
But oh.. Nathan, i read those books to pieces. I’m buying a ticket now.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
TinTin in film! Heaven on the big screenn! Those books shaped my idea of cool when I was a kid! Forget the television heros of seventies, for me it was the reporter kid with his dog and drunken sailor buddy.
Basil
August 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
it’s so nice to know that i’m not alone…
August 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Nelvana has put out some great Tintin episodes. Not CGI but my boys loved the ones we have so much the boxes are in tatters.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Oh, I link above, and am happy to lend.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Thank you, Kathryn, you’re a sweetheart to lend.