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    The Adventures of Tintin (Spielberg, 2011)

    Casting begins for the greatest flick ever!

    Blistering barnacles! Andy Serkis, the British actor who portrayed Gollum in The Lord of the Rings films, is being lined up to play Captain Haddock in the forthcoming Tintin movies for Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg, according to reports.

    Although studio DreamWorks has not confirmed the news, The Hollywood Reporter says it believes the 43-year-old thesp has been cast as Tintin's swearing and boozing sidekick.

    If the news is confirmed, Serkis would be the first casting confirmed on the high-profile project. Three films are planned in total, with Jackson and Spielberg each directing one instalment. It is not yet known who will direct the third movie.

    All three films will be made in digital 3D and will use performance-capture technology. This is a technique Serkis is well accustomed to, since he pioneered it for his performance as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings film and developed it further when he portrayed King Kong in Jackson's 2005 remake.

    British screenwriter Steven Moffat, who created the sitcom Coupling and was a writer on the new Doctor Who series, is adapting three adventures of Belgian's most famous reporter, which were originally written by Hergé.
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    I don't think I really know Serkis outside of Gollum, but that sounds good. I hope for the mo-cap, they opt for a more stylized image than Beowulf and its cohorts.

    Moffat seems an interesting and probably good choice.

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    who's directing first?

    I hope Spielberg gets Lincoln out of the way.

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    Jackson apparently, simultaneously with The Hobbit part I and II. Doh!
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    Quote Quoting Sycophant (view post)
    I don't think I really know Serkis outside of Gollum, but that sounds good. I hope for the mo-cap, they opt for a more stylized image than Beowulf and its cohorts.

    Moffat seems an interesting and probably good choice.
    as in a supporting role, he's actually quite good in 13 going on 30.
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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    Casting begins for the greatest flick ever!
    What? It's not even out yet. Calm down.

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    What? It's not even out yet. Calm down.
    I know it's hard to tell, but Morris is actually a tad biased.
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    I still picture him as being the age he was in Love, Actually (because I'm not sure that I've seen him in anything since). But if they think he's good enough, especially for his performance to shine through the technology, I don't have any problems at this point with the choice.
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    I still picture him as being the age he was in Love, Actually (because I'm not sure that I've seen him in anything since). But if they think he's good enough, especially for his performance to shine through the technology, I don't have any problems at this point with the choice.
    I hated him in Love Actually - he was a dead-eyed little sociopath.
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    I've actually never read Tintin but I've heard about the comic over the years. I'm very interested in this.





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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    Jackson apparently, simultaneously with The Hobbit part I and II. Doh!
    i thought Spielberg would be the first...

    interesting to think that now, Spielberg, Jackson and Cameron are doing 3D motion capture flicks. Zemeckis heard a lot of crap for doing this, now he must be laughing.

    what you ppl think about this? it's 3D and motion capture just a fad, or are here to stay?

    on a related note, Philips released a 3D HDTV that you can watch the fx without any glasses. Some demo kiosks on malls look incredible, i immediatly desired one of these and a 3D blu-ray of Beowulf to watch at home. To make things even tastier, Phillips claims that videogames may use the fx with a quick and cheap solution, i've heard that Bioshock with n-vidia's 3D plug-in is a stunner.

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    Quote Quoting KK2.0 (view post)
    i thought Spielberg would be the first...

    interesting to think that now, Spielberg, Jackson and Cameron are doing 3D motion capture flicks. Zemeckis heard a lot of crap for doing this, now he must be laughing.

    what you ppl think about this? it's 3D and motion capture just a fad, or are here to stay?

    on a related note, Philips released a 3D HDTV that you can watch the fx without any glasses. Some demo kiosks on malls look incredible, i immediatly desired one of these and a 3D blu-ray of Beowulf to watch at home. To make things even tastier, Phillips claims that videogames may use the fx with a quick and cheap solution, i've heard that Bioshock with n-vidia's 3D plug-in is a stunner.
    I have to say, I think it's a fad. A fad, that could grow into a staple, but for now, a fad. In fact, I'd hesitate to call it a fad even. I don't know anyone that is really demanding more of these 3D mocap flicks. It seems to me that perhaps the less than eventful last ten years of cinema have caused Spielberg and company some angst. Now they're looking for the "next big revolution in cinema." But, remember that almost anytime these "revolutions of cinema" were brought about, it was by studio heads trying to boost income. Color, stereo sound, and widescreen haven't made movies better, just different.

    Oh, and as long as it requires glasses it will never last. One of the reasons film has been so successful is because the barrier for the audience is so low. One projector and a couple cans of film can facilitate thousands of viewers. Books are he long standing example of interface simplicity but with films you don't even have to read. This is actually one of the reasons video games will struggle to find a mass audience for another thirty years. So much is required for one person to participate that only a tiny segment of the population can do so.

    Phillips is doing more to help 3D than Zemeckis, Jackson, Spielberg, and Cameron combined.





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    Universal has pulled funding from this film. Start worrying Morris!
    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...Ghmo2_9k4Q4xRQ

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    Quote Quoting Winston* (view post)
    Universal has pulled funding from this film. Start worrying Morris!
    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...Ghmo2_9k4Q4xRQ
    Universal won't pay $130mil for three films? Sounds like cheap-skate-ness to me. Though I guess it probably has more to do with Spielberg's and Jackson's back-end deals. You'd think they'd cut those down to finally get this thing made.
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    That's 130 million for three movies? That can't be. Must be 130 mil for just one picture. Am I worried? Not a great deal. I've little idea what to expect of a 3D animated Tintin. I guess something along the lines of Beowulf and Polar Express? If so, then I can't say I'm ecstatic. I would have preferred live action. I wonder if Universal had halted funding if it had been live action.
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    I am TOTALLY against the idea of a live-action Tintin. It's ridiculous to me. For fucking crying out loud, he's a character with a completely blank face. That's the whole point. No actor could do that. If they go with rotoscoping, I suggest they use actors for the supporting characters (Andy Serkis as Haddock sounds fantastic), but not for Tintin.

    I'm totally up for modern animated Tintin movies, though.

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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    I am TOTALLY against the idea of a live-action Tintin. It's ridiculous to me. For fucking crying out loud, he's a character with a completely blank face. That's the whole point. No actor could do that. If they go with rotoscoping, I suggest they use actors for the supporting characters (Andy Serkis as Haddock sounds fantastic), but not for Tintin.

    I'm totally up for modern animated Tintin movies, though.
    Yeah, I suppose ya got a point, but it's just a face. And the hair is kinda ridiculous also, but that really doesn't need to be retained for the movie. It'd be a different medium anyway. As long as the name is Tintin, the hair is blond and it is established that he's a Belgian reporter, I'd be cool with it.
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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    For fucking crying out loud, he's a character with a completely blank face. That's the whole point. No actor could do that.
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    Quote Quoting number8 (view post)
    Heh, Peter Jackson wants Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to be the Thompson twins.
    It's kinda confirmed now it seems.

    http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=23949
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    i thought Spielberg would be the first...

    interesting to think that now, Spielberg, Jackson and Cameron are doing 3D motion capture flicks. Zemeckis heard a lot of crap for doing this, now he must be laughing.
    Even Fincher was planning on using it for the now-cancelled Rendezvous with Rama.

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    The cast finally materializes (Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Andy Serkis, Toby Jones etc...)

    http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24066

    I still wish this was live action. Oh, and Edgar Wright is a co-writer!
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