TINTIN :part 1 spielberg,part 2 jackson

[yorrick brown]

Jim at MarketSaw has found a small interview with Andy Serkis that ran in IndieLondon where he spills / confirms a few significant details about the first couple Tintin movies.

I'll just quote the same bits Jim did, since Serkis is as concise as can be:

Q. Are you going to be reuniting with Peter Jackson again for Tintin?

Andy Serkis: In fact tomorrow I’m flying out to start on Tintin. Steven Spielberg is directing the first one, and then Peter Jackson is doing the second. The bulk of the shoot starts in September but things got a little bit moved around after the writers’ strike.

Q. Were you at all worried when Peter first got back in touch that having played Gollum and King Kong, he might ask you to play Snowy the dog?

Andy Serkis: [laughs] Absolutely, in fact people assume that I am, which is even more disturbing [he’s playing Captain Haddock].

There we go: Spielberg first, Jackson second, Haddock obliquely confirmed. Very obliquely on that last point, since nowhere in the interview does Serkis actually identify his character.

The detail that's missing: a name for the director's credit on the third film. The guessing games have been fun so far -- the best/most ridiculous name for the third flick to appear in the comments below gets a No-Prize

[Pirate Mike]

God forbid it's George Lucas

Maybe the Berg could pull Robert Zemeckis outta his motion cap spiral. I think he'd be good for this

[JJFlamingo]

Wow Tintin is so hip and cool the 18-49 crowd will just love it...:rolleyes:

[Tuukka]

Wow Tintin is so hip and cool the 18-49 crowd will just love it...:rolleyes:

Over 220 million books sold to date, translated to 77 languages. And it's been in circulation in libraries and families for over 50 years now. The books still sell roughly 4 million copies every year, and have maintained steady sales for about 50 years now. This despite the fact that the last Tintin came out in 1976.

Not sure how it will do in the states, but it can be massive in Europe. Almost every single person I know does know Tintin very well, and a very big percentage have read the comics.

[Grand_Marquis]

I'm lost. Are we talking about remakes of those lame movies about that wandering dog? I hated those movies. Why would anyone want to remake them, and why is the guy who played gollum involved, and why does it specifically need to be a trilogy??

[Tuukka]

I'm lost. Are we talking about remakes of those lame movies about that wandering dog? I hated those movies. Why would anyone want to remake them, and why is the guy who played gollum involved, and why does it specifically need to be a trilogy??

Do you mean Lassie? He was the wondering dog, not Rin Tin Tin, who is another dog.

Tintin is this guy:

http://tintintribute.com/logos/tintin1.jpg

[xseanymacx]

What the hell is a tintin?

[king_verhoeven]

Tintin is a name...And the third movie has Bob Zemeckis his name written all over it. Since he is the self-made king of Mo-Cap. And I have no problem if he would direct a third movie.
This movie is gonna be big, because in Europe the comics are considered classics. And in the US the names of Spielberg and Jackson (with probably some A-list actors) ensure a healthy box-office. I'm not sure if Mo-Cap is the best way to go, but they intend to give it a comic-book look. Plus now Tintin's dog will not stand out as much as CGI, since everything is CG.

[Cronos]

I loved the cartoon series when I was younger, can still remember some of the episodes rather well. With Spielberg and Jackson directing I'll definitely see them.

[Tuukka]

Even the God-awful Asterix movies are making 100+ million grosses in Europe because the comics have a classic status here.

I think that a realistic European B.O for a Spielberg/Jackson Tintin movie is from 200 to 300 million. From Europe alone.

...So fiscally speaking, it's a good movie to make, even if the character isn't that well known in USA.

[Grand_Marquis]

Okay, so not a dog. Got it. (dude, Lassie and Rin Tin Tin fall into the same goddamn category. :rolleyes:)

Character design looks boring and uninspired, but whatever, if it's successful then its successful. I guess he's popular for his 'everyman' appearance?

So what the fuck is Tintin about, anyway?

[Tuukka]

Okay, so not a dog. Got it. (dude, Lassie and Rin Tin Tin fall into the same goddamn category. :rolleyes:)

Character design looks boring and uninspired, but whatever, if it's successful then its successful. I guess he's popular for his 'everyman' appearance?

So what the fuck is Tintin about, anyway?

Tintin as a character is indeed "everyman" to extreme. He is rather bland, actually. A good, decent, brave guy who doesn't really have that much character. A boy scout. But he is surrounded by a very colorful and memorable supporting cast, that more or less stays the same throughout the books.

Think of a combination of Indiana Jones, National Treasure, and old Hollywood adventure movies. Exotic locations, high concept adventures, violence and danger intercut with a lot of humor. Tintin was a reporter who travelled all around the world, went as the first man to moon, was abducted by flying saucers, found long lost civilizations, ended up in middle of civil wars, fought drug triads, and so on.

[DaMovieMan]

I remember Tintin as being an educational comic strip, where his adventures would lead to one of those "and did you know this kids?" type of thing. Plus I loved watching it in the original French when i was a kid coz i loved the voices (the captain with the black beard had a great voice....is that Haddock?)

All in all, Tintin will aboslutely lose all its charm if it isn't done in French and by the sounds of these names it doesn't look it will be. Quel dommage...
will it be a proper film or will it be all motion capture a la Beowulf..?

[jeremy910]

I remember Tintin as being an educational comic strip, where his adventures would lead to one of those "and did you know this kids?" type of thing. Plus I loved watching it in the original French when i was a kid coz i loved the voices (the captain with the black beard had a great voice....is that Haddock?)

All in all, Tintin will aboslutely lose all its charm if it isn't done in French and by the sounds of these names it doesn't look it will be. Quel dommage...
will it be a proper film or will it be all motion capture a la Beowulf..?

Finally! Someone who knows about Tintin. I can't believe you guys never read the comic strips when you were kids. Also I hope it's not motion capture because I didn't enjoy Beowulf that much.

[Grand_Marquis]

Well, hopefully they'll stay closer to the 'clean line' style of art instead of doing a 1:1 actor-to-cg-actor approach, which I didn't like for Polar Express and continued not to like for Beowulf. If I have one opinion about this thing, it's that.

[yorrick brown]

don`t they have tintin books in america?

[DaMovieMan]

I wouldn't be surprised if they do but still, it's French just like Asterix and Obelix are French and just like croissants and baguettes are French.

Finally! Someone who knows about Tintin.
:) Probably has something to do with growing up in Europe, it seems like the wave didn't really catch on here.

[Tuukka]

I remember Tintin as being an educational comic strip, where his adventures would lead to one of those "and did you know this kids?" type of thing.

The cartoon might have been like that as I never really watched it that much. But the comic wasn't like that.

While technically Tintin was for kiddies, or for families, it was really quite adult themed. People got killed on-panel, drug-use, alcoholism, torture... It wasn't about lollipops and rainbows. Cruel things happened in the comics. It was pretty rooted in realism.

I'm sure much of that was removed from the cartoon.

[jbar1026]

don`t they have tintin books in america?


i remember reading them in the library at school. everyone else checked out the boring educational books :)

[king_verhoeven]

Well as I remembered the cartoon was not overly 'moral' or something. It might be a bit eductional, although I don't remember that. It was indeed pretty adult themed with shoot-outs, villains, cigars. And yes, it certainly has a flavour of Indiana Jones, but Tintin is just not as badass. I wonder how they are going to incorporate those stupid twin brothers. In the comic that kind of comedic-relief works, but in a movie it can quickly become silly.
But I have faith in Spielberg and Jackson, and they have the confidence to alter some stuff if it does not work on film. Also, about the French stuff: that is just something every kid grow up with, only in the language of their country: to me Tintin was called "Kuifje" and he spoke Dutch. I believe the author, Herge, came from Belgium, right? I only do not know what part of Belgium, because in the North they speak Dutch and in the South they speak French (yeah, it is a messed up country)

[fonxx]

And who is going to play Tintin? wait don´t tell me, Mark Whalberg. That guy is doing everything lately no matter the resemble to the original characters..

[DaMovieMan]

Well whether it was intended as educational or not, I always learned something new when I was a kid when watching Tintin, I read a bit of it as well (although I was way more into Lucky Luke and Asterix and Obelix when it came to reading) but I don't remember any drug use hahah, that sounds so crazy for Tintin, murder yes, cigar smoking yes, dangerous places of course but drug intake? I don't know...I didn't read or watch that particular issue. heh

I know the original language is French (i mean just the name itself, Tintin, is uber-French) and I remember watching it in French with Serbian subtitles (these were tapes i think, on TV it was dubbed)

Anyway, all this to say that i was never such a huge fan so I'm not dying to see this film. But it is a small part of my early childhood and I just hate the fact that part of it is now being realized on cinema by Spielberg of all people and I hate the fact that it will be in English/Americanized.
Running out of ideas how to milk people's money so they take other countries' originals...

[a7xfan]

uwe boll for part 3









its been confirmed

[Cronos]

uwe boll for part 3
We can only hope.

[yorrick brown]

And who is going to play Tintin? wait don´t tell me, Mark Whalberg. That guy is doing everything lately no matter the resemble to the original characters..

ondon's Daily Mail reports that boyish actor Thomas Sangster has been cast in the title role of 'Tintin' in the upcoming blockbuster productions by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.

A London schoolboy studying for his A-levels is about to sign up to play comic book hero Tintin in a trilogy of films to be directed by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.

Story continues after the jump...


Thomas Sangster, 17, from South London, has already been to Los Angeles to work on preproduction test sequences with both directors.

Sangster, you may recall, was the lad who starred in the Richard Curtis film comedy Love Actually, where Liam Neeson played his stepdad and his leading co-stars were Emma Thompson and Bill Nighy

[Pride]

I loved Tintin was I was younger and would constantly read while everybody else read Aterix. I recently started collecting the comics again about 2 years ago so yeah I would defiently be seeing this movie

...really wanna see who the third director is though

[yorrick brown]

...really wanna see who the third director is though



But before another "Indiana Jones" movie can start, Spielberg is working on adaptating "Tintin" for the big screen. As was previously announced, he is directed the first Tintin while Peter Jackson is helming the second. But who will sit in the director's chair for the third installment of the trilogy?

"We are going to make three 'Tintin' movies back-to-back," Spielberg said. "I'll direct the first one, Peter will direct the second one. We'll probably co-direct the third one

[Pride]

Ahk sweet. I would've liked someone like Bob Zemeckis to take it, but at least they're co-directing rather than giving it to a lesser director.

[LordSimen]

I have no idea who Tintin is and reading this thread has made me even more confused as to who he is.

[outsyder]

I grew up with the cartoon. Should be pretty awesome.

[Scarfather]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPxa5tC-rt4

[Servo]

I dunno....I'm getting an Altman/Popeye vibe from all of this...

[a7xfan]

shia la Bouf for tin tin?

[corran horn]

When I first heard about this project, I really wasn't sure what to make of it. Now, I'm thinking it could be something really interesting. Why?

1) Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg, my 2 favorite directors, are collaborating on it. This in and of itself would have been enough for me.

2) Andy Serkis is starring in it (as Captain Haddock)

3) I forget the guy's name, but one of the writers for Doctor Who is doing the screenplay.

Hopefully, Pete and Steve will rectify what has been my biggest complaint with motion capture movies: the dead eyes.

[JohnLocke2342]

Tintin is pretty cool, but putting together Spielberg and Jackson should give us something one thousand times better then Tintin. Seriously. This is the best idea those two had? I wish they wouldve made an epic trilogy or two part movie of something else. But hey, I guess it's better them on some cartoon remake then nothing.