The Adventures of Tintin (Spielberg, 2011)

[transmogrifier]

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!

Great cast list, actually. Jamie Bell is one of the better young actors around.

[megladon8]

I love Andy Serkis.

[Morris Schæffer]

So if I take the character of Gollem as he appears in Jackson's movies, and apply that to every character that will appear in the Tintin movies, I should have a clear idea of what Spielberg and Jackson are after visually?

Or is Zemeckis' Beowulf a better indicator?

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Once and for all:

GOLEM
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GOLLUM
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And I think they'll go for something better than both, Morris.

[Qrazy]

Miyazaki should make a Tintin movie.

[Morris Schæffer]

Once and for all:

GOLEM
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GOLLUM
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And I think they'll go for something better than both, Morris.

Forgive me. Gollum is "Gollem" in Dutch so I get them confused. We still cool?:P

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Forgive me. Gollum is "Gollem" in Dutch so I get them confused. We still cool?:P

Hahaha! Okay. I can certainly relate.

[Morris Schæffer]

Hahaha! Okay. I can certainly relate.

By the way, yesterday a Hergé museum opened here in Belgium and most folks attended because of the video message by Spielberg and Jackson.....dressed as Thompson and Thompson. :lol:

[Morris Schæffer]

the video I talked about above:

http://www.tintin.com/#../tintinTV/t...root.ban2&SSPJ

[Qrazy]

So is Tintin Spileberg's next film? Lincoln and Oldboy are shelved for now?

[Ezee E]

So is Tintin Spileberg's next film? Lincoln and Oldboy are shelved for now?

Apparently.

[KK2.0]

the video I talked about above:

http://www.tintin.com/#../tintinTV/t...root.ban2&SSPJ

awesome!

Maybe it's me but Spielberg looks so old and Jackson looks even younger in that video.

[Qrazy]

awesome!

Maybe it's me but Spielberg looks so old and Jackson looks even younger in that video.

Jackson is 15 years younger.

[Grouchy]

There's something I don't understand - in the book the flashback shows Red Rackham pretty much exactly like Haddock in a pirate custome. Why go through the trouble of getting different actors for Haddock and his great-grandfather, when Hergé made it so simple?

Other than that, great cast.

[monolith94]

I'm sort of concerned that they haven't cast a professor calculus yet…

[Sxottlan]

First image from the set. Love seeing Spielberg side by side with Jackson:

[Morris Schæffer]

wow!

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have chosen Empire to reveal the first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Headed our way next October, the film adapts the enormously popular books by Hergé in performance-captured, 3D form.
Our exclusive and specially-Weta-created cover is a riff on the iconic image of Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his dog Snowy picked out by a spotlight as they are running. Then we have a couple of stills from the film, one showing you Andy Serkis’ Captain Haddock and another with Haddock and Tintin adrift at sea and signalling for help.
“With live action you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be casting people to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”

Click the cover above to enlarge

So what can we expect from the story? Here’s what Spielberg told us. “The first part of the film, which is the most mysterious part, certainly owes much to not only film noir but the whole German Brechtian theatre — some of our night scenes and our action scenes are very contrasty. But at the same time the movie is a hell of an adventure.”

The film also stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and Thomson respectively (“When people first heard that bit of casting they thought that we’d gone barking mad,” says Jackson. Adds Spielberg, “The Thompson Twins can’t be clones of each other. Nick and Simon provided all the differences we needed to foil for each other. They have a wonderful moment in the movie where they start to have an argument about whose sidekick is whose.”) and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. It also features Cary Elwes, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook and Daniel Mays.
And for those of you thinking really far ahead, what has Jackson got planned for his Tintin adventure if and when the planned sequel happens? “One of my favourites is The Seven Crystal Balls, so that’s the one I’ve always been thinking of,” he says. “I also really like the Eastern European ones, the Balkan ones like King Ottoman’s Sceptre and The Calculus Affair. I think it’s a terrific setting for a thriller, the weird Balkan politics and the mysterious secret service agents. I think the Moon ones are terrific, but they’d be good for the third or fourth Tintin film, if we get that far. We want to keep his feet on the ground just a little bit longer.”

[number8]

I don't mind Haddock, but Tintin's face, at least in the dark, looks fucking creepy.

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I think he looks just right. Awesome news.

[eternity]

The Zemeckis disease is spreading.

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The Zemeckis disease is spreading.

This is actually the cure for that.

[Henry Gale]

As silly as it probably is to judge the animation just from these three stills, it really does look only a step above Polar Express to me. Everything from the look of Tintin's sweater (put against the one the kid had in PE), the fake lens flares, to the slight sparkle and glow around every object and character; it's not extremely expressive. I mean, we're still about a year away from the finished product, and even something like Avatar seemed to have improvements from early trailers to finished film.

I just want this to be really good. I don't so much care when something like Zemeckis' Christmas Carol comes out looking questionable, we already have other versions of that story in film. This is the only shot we've had for Tintin to be an awesome movie, and with the people behind it, it has every reason to be.

[Qrazy]

As silly as it probably is to judge the animation just from these three stills, it really does look only a step above Polar Express to me. Everything from the look of Tintin's sweater (put against the one the kid had in PE), the fake lens flares, to the slight sparkle and glow around every object and character; it's not extremely expressive. I mean, we're still about a year away from the finished product, and even something like Avatar seemed to have improvements from early trailers to finished film.

I just want this to be really good. I don't so much care when something like Zemeckis' Christmas Carol comes out looking questionable, we already have other versions of that story in film. This is the only shot we've had for Tintin to be an awesome movie, and with the people behind it, it has every reason to be.

Although depressingly not as much so in relation to their recent output.

[Boner M]

“The first part of the film, which is the most mysterious part, certainly owes much to not only film noir but the whole German Brechtian theatre”.

Lolwut.

[Qrazy]

“The first part of the film, which is the most mysterious part, certainly owes much to not only film noir but the whole German Brechtian theatre”.

Lolwut.

In the very next shot shown above the plane crashes through the screen demonstrating the artificiality of the set piece.