Tintin movie trilogy speculation thread

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NOT SPECUMALATION, AKSHEL TRUFAX:

Moffat Writing DreamWorks' Tintin
Source: The Hollywood Reporter October 2, 2007

British scribe Steven Moffat is writing DreamWorks' Tintin, the movie trilogy collaboration from Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg that adapts the European comic strip created by Herge, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Moffat is best known for penning the new "Doctor Who" series and the BBC's "Jekyll."

In the comics, Tintin is a young Belgian reporter and world traveler who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy. He later was joined by such colorful characters as Captain Haddock, Professor Cuthbert Calculus and bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson.

Kathleen Kennedy is serving as producer on the three feature films, which will be made using performance-capture technology and produced in digital 3-D. Jackson and Spielberg are each directing an installment, with the helmer of the third movie to be determined.

WOW.

Well that MAY scupper the Moffat for Who clamourers but this is clearly good news if you think a Tintin film is a good idea. Which to be fair, I'm not super sure of myself...

certainly not if it comes out looking anything like the polar express

certainly not if Spielberg is within 500 miles of the production at any time

http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/10/tintin-watch-so.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i63073cda9189a10c987f93343a0ea7ba

"thompson on hollywood" snicker

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will indeed team up to portray bumbling detectives, Thomson and Thompson, in the live-action adaptation of 'Tintin'.

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00020985.html

Hey, that sounds suspiciously like a good idea.

This and Serkis as Haddock are good ideas. I'm still far from convinced that the project is a good idea.

I think it should be a CGI Tintin, looking like a beefed-up (but still disarmingly 2-D) version of Herge's cartoon, to emphasise the idealistic impossibility of his being. Every other character should be played by an actor and look mostly unlike their cartoon counterpart.

Thomson and Thompson are supposed to look like twins :|

Hold on, when did this turn from a "3D animation" to "live-action"? And Jim is right, Dupond & Dupondt are supposed to look and speak alike, they should be played by the same actor.

OK, lots of news here:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24066

Jamie Bell's an alright actor, but I find him a bit of an irritating little squirt myself. Also, Unicorn/Rackham is my least favourite of the two-parters.

Good choice, imo. Jamie Bell was impressive in Hallam Foe.

Odd, I just remembered that it was all over the news that some other kid had been picked about six months ago.

Unicorn/Rackham is one of my favourites, actually -- pickpockets! treasure! twist endings! shark submarines! SHARK SUBMARINES! -- but yeah, it's not necessarily the one I'd most like to see adapted (which would probably be The Calculus Affair, or The Seven Crystal Balls -- or Cigars/Blue Lotus, especially if they kept in "in period".)

Speaking of which, are these going to be period pieces, or modern-day updates. If Tintin files his copy via email, I will shoot myself.

calculus affair would be so fucking rad

Peter Jackson should do Crystal Balls/Prisoners, the spookiness of it would suit him.

paul greengrass should do calculus affair

Yes!

Yeah, it had been Thomas Sangster, who was surprisingly non-annoying as Liam Neeson's kid in Love, Actually, and was then awesome in the two-part Family of Blood in Doctor Who.

Haha Toby Jones + Mackenzie Crook = quality stunt casting!

Is Toby Jones Calculus?

I'm guessing Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook for the Bird Brothers, and Gad Elmaleh as Calculus.

According to Wiki Jones is Silk (the pickpocket guy).

re-reading these--spielberg is basically the best director possible to get at what makes these books so special i think

well maybe thats not true. but the comics--especially the early ones--read like spielberg flicks, heartwarming action-adventures about the power of friendship with a healthy dose of broad comedy

I think that's certainly what attracted Spielberg to them, yes. You get the feeling that he could tell a story in a good approximation of Herge's style. The tricky part is the script, though- no-one else who's tried Tintin has really got the voice right.

How's Spielberg going to work in his absent father issues?

secret of the unicorn/red rackham's treasure is all abt absent father issues

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2009/03/spielberg-jackson-talk-tintin-video.html

I meekly admit I'm not at all excited for this one.

I'm upset there's still over a year to go before this hits screens everywhere.

IT'S GOING TO BE GRRRREAT NO MATTER WHAT YOU HATERS SAY GRRRRRREAT GREEDY GUTS

I'm still curious about what it's going to look like.

http://ghostradio.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/57-03.jpg?w=299&h=192

The whole Red Rackham’s Treasure = sharks = Spielberg thing just occurred to me.

I bet Spielberg will end up making a film version of Breaking Free by accident.

First stills:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=29355

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/45763.jpg http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/150x180/45764.jpg

Okay, these look pretty much as awful as I expected. Why the heck do Spielberg & co think people want to see quasi-realistic CGI version of Tintin characters? At least they could've made them more cartoonish, like the human characters in Pixar movies.

Tuomas OTM

The CGI was probably gonna look stupid no matter what, but this could still be awesome. Milou does look a little weird.

ugh. captain haddock looks like a richard corben drawing!

Ugh indeed. Cataclysmically ugly.

I mean, if you're going to try to make it look realistic, why bother yr arse with motion capture: just shoot it live. That Haddock looks exactly fuck all like Haddock.

Ward OTM

Ughs OTM

Ligne Clair RIP

At first I thought the look was bad.

A few seconds later I changed my mind.

Haddock in that still looks like a slightly less creepy version of those "real Homer Simpson" and "real Super Mario" pics:

http://artatm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/18_real_super_mario.jpg

ha ha ha ha otm again

agree demands more cartoonish vibes, still plenty of time for tweaks tho

rly doubt they're going to rework the entire design and rendering of their three-film investment at this stage

Don't doubt the pull that Tuomas has in Hollywood.

In other comics movie news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/08/zac-efron-akira-shotaro-kaneda

I'm guessing this story is not, er, true.

wouldn't be at all surprised. he has anime-quality hair.

I smell another POLAR EXPRESS coming on. You know, the one that terrified children and adults alike with its inexorable creepiness?

just remember how this is pronounced - "TANN TANN"

The Guardian has the full trailer today.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/jul/11/tintin-trailer

Here too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEj3UsAl0K8

This was talked about on the Tintin thread yesterday, fyi.

http://movies.uk.msn.com/features/the-adventures-of-tintin-exclusive-trailer

Glimpse of Simon Pegg's Thompson, bringing the funny with a lamp-post collision.

ive wanted to see simon peggs thompson for a long time

Seeing this tonight. Will report back. Have some gummy eye problem, so not the 3D one.

Will be happy with a decent romp and not too much twattery.

First reviews are in and it's not good