Peter Jackson’s & Spielberg’s Tintin : What a cast!
Variety talks about one of the most anticipated films this side of 2009, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, while our prolific author, Kenny can’t stop gushing about it…
The two films I’m most excited about in the post-Dark Knight era are James Cameron’s Avatar and …Tintin! And in a nice coincidence, the story being filmed is The Secret of the Unicorn, the first Tintin book I bought.
I’m drooling over the voice cast! Couldn’t be better! Daniel Craig as Red Rackham, Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock (Perfect!!!!) and as Thomson and Thompson – Simon Pegg and Nick Frost!!!! A match made in heaven!
Excerpts from the article:
Steven Spielberg this week will quietly wrap 32 days of performance-capture lensing on “Tintin,” then hand the project to producer Peter Jackson, who will focus on the film’s special effects for the next 18 months.
Although the baton-pass is stealthy, “Tintin” is anything but a low-profile project. And that’s just the first of many contradictions inherent with the film, which brings together two of cinema’s visionaries.
The Tintin comicbook series about a globetrotting teenaged boy reporter, which originated 80 years ago in Belgium, is wildly popular in many countries around the world. In the U.S., however, the character is little-known, especially among children.
Spielberg and Jackson’s respective camps have tried to keep a lid on the details of what is expected to become a three-film franchise while hyping the one-of-a-kind aspects of “Tintin’s” motion-capture technology, which is being created by Jackson’s New Zealand-based effects house Weta.
So, Gang up, all you Tintin fans!
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this is one of the films i’ve been eagerly awaiting ever since I first heard of it…BTW the article doesn’t mention who is playing Tintin…
It is strange that Tintin is not so popular in the US…they are too obsessed with their superheroes…Europe is blessed with the two best comicbook characters of all time…Tintin & Asterix…
would be a cracker…!!
This completely makes my day!
Grown up calling everyone an over-sized baboon…loved Tintin since the beginning of time…
So much so that I spent half of my holiday budget in Belgium in the Tintin store!
*excited* Great voice cast!
(Simon Pegg and Nick Frost!! Awesomeness)
Thanks Tushar
Yeah, I hav been waiting for more info on this project ever since it was announced. And coincidentally, the first Tintin book I bought was also “The Secret of the Unicorn”. Andy Serkis as Red Rackham…..mouth-watering stuff !
Btw, dunno much about James Cameron’s Avatar. Watz that about?
Nice post. Even I am eagerly waiting..Read all the tintin series in school days.Waiting to see it in the big screen!!
@ Doc Ock, Avatar is a new movie by James Cameron and is set in another planet. All the characters , environment etc. was created new and is something out of the box. Cameron and his crew have developed a specialized camera for capture. I also read that the language of the movie is “alien” – something new. Its releasing this december!
Tintin’s being voiced by Jamie Bell, the young sailor kid in King Kong.
And till editors correct it, everyone please read the piece as “The two films….” and not “The two film’s…”
Sorry I’m a little bit neurotic about correct spelling. And ESPECIALLY about correctly using the apostrophe and the difference between “its” and “it’s” and …(somebody stop me!)
Tintin has allways been one of my all time favs, and to see Spielberg and Jackson go at it, Hell ya
“Billions of blue blistering barnacles” here they come!!!!
Thanks for the correction, Anand.
This had been one of my most awaited films of 2009, till I read a piece of news that completely damped my excitement – the Tintin film is being shot using motion-capture technology alike Beowulf and Polar Express.
Why?! Why?! Why?!!!
I may sound like a bit of an old timer but I hated the way both those films looked! Mo-Cap seems to me to be a terrible middle path between live action & animation – the characters all look stylized but plasticky & unreal.
The technology works fine in the big fight sequences but when it came to the more intimate scenes in Beowulf, I remember thinking that I could maybe care more about these people – if only they didn’t look so fake & cartoony! I can’t bear the thought of feeling similarly alienated from the characters while watching a Tintin film – especially since when I read the books as a kid, I was completely sucked into them.
I am told that Spielberg/Jackson are using the technique to try and create a Herge-like alternate reality. While that seems to be a laudable artistic endeavor – from what I remember the art-work of the Tintin books was the least exciting thing about them! They never had the intricacy of the Asterix series or the sophisticated style of Millar or Moore’s books. What Tintin had were amazing characters & great adventures – and it seems like atleast half of that is under threat!!
Last I checked live-action was still a great way to bring comics.. sorry graphic novels
to the screen – doubters go take a look at The Dark Knight again!!
I was waiting for this to happen for whole of my life. Spielberg & jackson….just doesnt get better than this. but who is tintin??
Red Rackham is Haddocks ancestor …shouldnt he look and sound like him as in the books?
they are doing Secret OF The Unicorn and Red Rackhams treasure as the first movie and Seven Crystal Balls/Prisoners of the sun as the 2nd
whose playing Calculus…..
@laa dolce vita
live action wouldn’t do justice to Tintin……that’s what both Spielberg and Peter Jackson said…..and i agree…..the Mo-cap WETAA is using is top of the line technology that hasn’t been used before…..I’m quite sure it would look good if James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have given it the thumbs up (Cameron’s using similar tech for AVATAR)
and to say the Tintin books didn’t have good-art is quite sacrilegious ….Herge pioneered the ‘ligne claire’ style in graphic novel/comic book writing….clean expressive lines that gave the stories a more realistic feel…..it is one of the most definitive artistic styles in modern art
IMDB says the release is slated for 2011!!!
Loooooooong wait :(
@Abhay K
Red Rackham is the pirate. Sir Francis Haddock is the ancestor. Funny thing, there’s no listing for Calculus on the IMDB page
@La Dolce Vita
The amount of detailing in Asterix comics amazes me even more now that I know a few more things about the world than when I was a school kid